Definition of industrial relations in US English:
industrial relations
plural nounɪnˈˌdəstriəl rəˈleɪʃənz
The relations between management and workers in industry.
lifetime employment tends to contribute to better industrial relations
as modifier an industrial relations policy
Example sentencesExamples
- Further industrial relations reform is also needed, with special focus on the needs of small business.
- He said the union was willing to engage in all industrial relations mechanisms in order to resolve the dispute.
- He believes the current industrial relations system ain't broke and doesn't need fixing.
- Such a scenario would be far more palatable if the legacy of industrial relations problems had been settled once and for all.
- It's based on field evidence and an analysis of Labor's industrial relations policy.
- You have said you do not want to compromise your industrial relations strategy.
- During my researches into life at the newspaper, a surprising and disturbing industrial relations picture emerged.
- Further, he says the industrial relations newspaper ads are dishonest.
- The firm introduced a new industrial relations policy with new shift arrangements to cut down the risks to workers.
- Since the election the Prime Minister has also indicated he is keen to pursue industrial relations reform.
- Employers have had to deal with more than one union and this has not helped in improving industrial relations and harmony.
- She had conducted seminars, conferences and workshops in business and industrial relations.
- After two hours the blokes had covered police corruption, globalisation and industrial relations.
- This act was to be the dominant influence in New Zealand's industrial relations for the next seventy nine years.
- Clearly reform of industrial relations in the universities is important.
- They're a group that advise the Catholic bishops on policy issues with regard to industrial relations.
- But her attitude to industrial relations was more difficult to defend.
- I suppose a certified agreement is a real product of consensus in the industrial relations situation.
- Nowhere has the panic of a campaign off the rails been more obvious than in their policy on industrial relations.
- To what extent can these changes be put down to a coherent management attempt to reform workplace industrial relations?