| Role of Employees | - Help business achieve business objectives |
| Role of Employers (Owners) | - Through HR Manager they deal with employee relation issues
- Must meet minimum pay set under award.
- Involved in negotiations of an enterprise agreement.
- Explore ways to increase the productivity levels of their employees. |
| Role of Human Resource Managers | - Key role in wage negotiations
- Train employees
- Lodge new agreements with Fair Work Commission
- Deals with disputes (including unfair dismissals)
- Ensure an award or agreement is implemented properly. |
| Unions | are organisations formed by employees in an industry, trade or occupation to represent them to improve wages and working conditions of their members. |
| Role of Unions | - Listen to employee grievances.
- Provide employees with a voice in the employment relationship.
- Give advice or information on the matter.
- Negotiate and bargain on employee’s behalf.
- Listen to employee demands and represent their interests in bargaining process.
- Negotiate in good faith.
- Organise industrial action and participate purposefully in dispute resolution.
- Engage in dispute resolution to reach a compromise. |
| Employer Associations | are organisations that represent and assist employers. |
| Role of Employer Associations | - Look after interests of employer.
- Keep them up to date with changes in laws.
- Help negotiate workplace agreements. |
| Fair Work Commission | Australia’s national workplace relations tribunal. |
| Role of Fair Work Commission | - Establish a set of legally binding national minimum standard wages and working conditions (award)
- Facilitate good faith bargaining to support employers /employees overcome disputes (through conciliation, arbitration, etc.)
- Approve workplace agreements.
- Deal with applications in relation to unfair dismissal.
- Monitor compliance with agreements and take enforcement action for any breaches through the courts with necessary. |
