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Industrial Relations
Definitions
Term | Definition |
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Industrial relations | Relationship between employers and employees in the workplace |
Trade dispute | Conflict over terms and conditions, the employment or non employment of any person |
Trade union | Interest group which seeks to improve conditions and pay of its members eg. SIPTU |
Shop steward | Union representative in the workplace, elected by co-workers |
Productivity claim | Pay increase for extra work |
Comparability claim | Want a pay increase because people doing similar work have received a pay increase |
Relatively claim | Designed to maintain pay differentials between employees at different levels |
Cost of living claim | In order to keep up with inflation |
1990 Industrial relations act | Law governing disputes and established LRC |
LRC | Labour Relations Commission -promotes good IR |
Secondary picketing | Picketing place of second employer who is frustrating strike being resolved |