conflation between employer and employee – Employee Relations
Employee relations has replaced industrial relations as the term for defining the relationship between employers and employees. Today, employee relations (ER) is focusing on both individual and collective relationships in the workplace, with an increasing importance on helping line managers establish trust-based relationships with employees. A positive climate of employee relations combined with high levels of employee involvement, commitment and engagement can improve business outcomes as well as contribute to employees' well-being. (CIPD, 2017) Employee or employment relations are concerned with managing and maintaining the employment relationship, which involves handling the pay work bargain, dealing with employment practices, terms and conditions of employment, issues arising from employment, providing employees with a voice and communicating with employees. They consist of the approaches and methods adopted by employers to deal with employees either collectively thr