LEGISLATION

Legislation And Human Resource Function

Legislation And Human Resource Function

Introduction

The management of human resource is one of the critical tasks that are to be carried out by the business owners. Human resources department of the organization performs many functions related to the workforce management. These include, in addition to recruitment, selection and wages issues, the workplace safety, discrimination issues, fair work, termination, OSHA, privacy of the employees. These functions of human resource provide the better and fair working environment to the employees that strengthen the employer-employee relationship.

The international laws that govern the employment laws have been established to provide the structured guideline to the organizations that must be followed to ensure the effective management of the human resources by protecting the rights of all the employees. The international based established laws involves governing hiring and firing, wages and benefits, discrimination and harassment, workplace safety, workplace privacy, and many more workplace issues. The employers of the organizations must be well aware about the laws to handle the employees' compensations in the better way.

It is the responsibility of the employers to manage its human resource operations in accordance with the legislations that are defined by the international employee bodies. Effectively managing the human resources functions in the business helps the employers to ensure that they stay compliant with the relevant legislation and regulations.

The major pieces of legislation relative to the human resource function within an organization include the following:

Fair Work

OHS (Organizational Health and Safety)

Workers' Compensation

Anti-discrimination

Superannuation

Paid parental leave

Privacy

The description of these major pieces of legislation is described in detail in the following section that shows and specifies the basic fundamental that are required by each of the legislation that must be implemented in the organization.

Discussion

Fair Work

The Fair Work Act 2009 offers for the institutions of fair work at the employment in Australia. The fair work act provides the seven basic workplace frameworks in relations to agencies and national workplace relations system. The Fair Work Act is the national workplace affairs panel that has the authority to carry out varieties of functions relating to employment issues of workers. Fair work act of Australia deals with the number of powers and authorities that are related to the workplace relations agencies. The act provides the framework for the safety and protection of employment conditions of the employees and also for the protection of minimum fair wages of the employees. The act also deals with the issues of enterprise bargaining, industrial actions approving agreements, dispute resolution, varying awards, termination of employment, dismissal claims, and other workplace matters.

OHS (Organizational Health and Safety)

The success of the organization depends upon the satisfaction of the employees. The healthy and safety working environment is the key to organizational success because it is the important factor that increases the employee productivity. It is the responsibility of the employers to provide the safe working environment and the safe working equipments to minimize at the risk of health hazards at most possible level. The objectives of occupational safety and health programs consist of promoting ...