Unitary Vs. Pluralists

The Collective Labour Relations

The Collective Labour Relations

Introduction

The term collective labor relations are at best imprecise. Strictly speaking, the term collective labor relations cover all the rules, institutions and practices that characterize the relationship between employers and representatives of employers and employees represented by their unions. The collective term, however, can lead to confusion. The individual relationships between the employer and the employee, the conclusion of a contract, negotiating a termination notice and getting promotion scale, are all determined by the rules, practices and institutions from collective bargaining. They are an integral part of relations collective labor. If one refers to the Anglo-Saxon literature, one rather find terms of industrial relations. This term has the merit to designate the set of relations between employers and employees. However, it is restrictive in that the industry term refers to the industry while employment currently concentrates its resources on the services sector (at a rate of over 65% in Belgium). The term relations industry is the fact that the relationships between employers and employees come into existence and developed in conjunction with industrial activity grew. When one speaks today of industrial relations, it means just as much relationship between employers and employees in the steel industry such as those between employers and employees in the banking sector or industry care health. The term industrial relations are also indicative of certain industrial relations no longer necessarily adapted to the new features of labor markets including in terms of sectored distribution of employment.

From the above, it appears that an attempt to a single definition is difficult. Bain & Price (1980, pp.88) propose the following definition: a set of phenomena, operating in both the workplace and outside of it, is to determine and regulate the employment relationship. This definition implies that the scope of collective relations or relations industry is only applicable strictly to the study of relations between employers and employees, but it covers, according to Jacoby (1985, pp.68) all the practices and rules that, in a company, a branch region or the entire economy, the relationship between structure employees, employers and the state (Rowley & Jackson, 2009, pp.189). This term has the advantage cover all of the employment system the concept of industrial relations is more often associated with the industrial model primarily involving male employees, occupied full-time, unionized workers and practicing collective actions such as Strikes and collective bargaining (Rowley & Jackson, 2009, pp.189). The study of employment relations better reflects the development of more varied forms of employment such as part-time work, employment in services and the management methods of individualized labor.

Discussion & Analysis

Discipline or self-intersection of diverse disciplines

Industrial relations or collective is a vast field of study, both because the scientific disciplines that are a part of it are many and because the reality is that industrial relations is far beyond the strict limits of employer-employee relations in the workplace. Industrial relations are thus at the crossroads of disciplines such as economics, sociology, management, political science, ...