Foundation MPHR 696
Final Exam
Jan 23rd, 2014
Question 1: Collective Bargaining
A labor relation is a key issue for organizations because the nature of the relationship between employees and employers can have a significant impact on morale, motivation and productivity.
The act allows unions to be formed and exist as employee organizations that have the legal rights to bargain with management over various terms and conditions of employment. When a union is elected to represent employees, the union representatives and employees are jointly responsible for negotiating a collective bargaining agreement that covers various terms and conditions of employment. Collective bargaining is an integral part of HR and employee relationship management. Collective bargaining is the term used to describe the traditional process by which agreements between employers and employees are made. Those agreements may be at national, regional, local, etc. There are no specific set of requirements as to the term or content of any collective-bargaining agreement. For the purpose of collective bargaining is performance of the mutual obligation of employer and the employees to meet reasonable times and confer in good heath with respects to wages, hours and terms and conditions of employment. Why collective bargaining experiencing great stresses and strains when it comes to delivering basic wages, hours and working conditions? In the case of benefit, the pressure around health care costs, and retirement benefit are now are landscape that goes well beyond economic cycle. Although there is Act to protect the collective bargaining in terms of the right and obligations to make agreement in both side from employees and employer, however, the management and the union always cannot be able to perceive benefit from the same perspective. When union report wage reduction has large number of proportions, however, the management reported the different number of