20 Industrial Relations or Employment Relations terms
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Accounting
noun
Accounting or Accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations.
Example: We must do our accounting before hiring a new employee.
en: Comptabilité
Accreditation
noun
Accreditation is a third-party attestation related to a conformity assessment body (such as certification body, inspection body or laboratory) conveying formal demonstration of its competence to carry out specific conformity assessment tasks (such as certification, inspection and testing).
Example: The bars have an accreditation to sell alcohol.
en: Accréditation
Arbitration
noun
Arbitration, a form of alternative dispute resolution, is a way to resolve disputes outside the courts. The dispute will be decided by one or more persons (the 'arbitrators', 'arbiters' or 'arbitral tribunal'), which renders the 'arbitration award'. An arbitration award is legally binding on both sides and enforceable in the courts.
Example: I asked a staffing counselor to help with the arbitration
en: Arbitrage
Collective agreement
noun
A collective agreement, collective labour agreement is a written contract negotiated through collective bargaining for employees by one or more trade unions with the management of a company (or with an employers' association) that regulates the terms and conditions of employees at work. This includes regulating the wages, benefits, and duties of the employees and the duties and responsibilities of the employer or employers and often includes rules for a dispute resolution process.
Example: We signed a collective agreement last week.
en: Conventions collectives
Employment
noun
Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.
Example: My employment allows me to have a salary.
en: Emploi
Employment agency
noun
An employment agency is an organization which matches employers to employees. In developed countries, there are multiple private businesses which act as employment agencies and a publicly-funded employment agency.
Example: I asked an employment agency to help me find competent employees.
en: Agence d'emploi
Firm
noun
A firm is a commercial partnership of two or more people.
Example: The firm where I work is close to my home.
en: Firme
Globalisation
noun
Globalisation, is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide. Globalization has accelerated since the 18th century due to advances in transportation and communication technology. This increase in global interactions has caused a growth in international trade and the exchange of ideas and culture. Globalization is primarily an economic process of interaction and integration that is associated with social and cultural aspects. However, disputes and diplomacy are also large parts of the history of globalization, and of modern globalization.
Example: One of the causes of globalisation is technological progress.
en: Mondialisation
Human resources
noun
Human resources is the set of the people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge which the individuals embody. Similar terms include manpower, labor, personnel, associates or simply people.
Example: Human resources is a vast field of study.
en: Ressources humaine
Industrial Relations
noun
Industrial relations or employment relations is the multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship;[1] that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labor/trade unions, employer organizations and the state.
Example: My university program is Industrial Relations.
en: Relations Industrielle
Labour law
noun
Labour law (also known as labor law or employment law) mediates the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions and the government.
Example: The labor law protect me.
en: Droit du travail
Legal research
noun
Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation.
Example: You have to do your legal research before approaching the situation.
en: Recherche juridique
Management
noun
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body.
Example: I'm managing the company.
en: Gestion
Negotiation
noun
Negotiation is a dialogue between two or more people or parties intended to reach a beneficial outcome over one or more issues where a conflict exists with respect to at least one of these issues.
Example: We had a negotiation with the employees
en: Négociation
Organisation
noun
An organisation (is an entity – such as a company, an institution, or an association – comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.
Example: Our organisation protect people.
en: Organisation
Social dynamics
noun
Social dynamics (or sociodynamics) is the study of the behavior of groups that results from the interactions of individual group members as well to the study of the relationship between individual interactions and group level behaviors.
Example: I am studying social dynamics of American people.
en: Dynamiques sociales
Statistics
noun
Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.[1][2][3] In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied.
Example: I made statistics on the workload of employees.
en: Statistiques
Trade union
noun
A trade union (or a labor union in American English), often simply called a union, is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals, such as protecting the integrity of their trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.
Example: With the help of my trade union, I was able to assert my labour rights.
en: Syndicat
Wage
noun
A wage is the distribution from an employer of a security (expected return or profits derived solely from others) paid to an employee. Like interest is paid out to an investor on his investments, a wage is paid (from company earnings) to the employee on the employee's invested assets (time, money, labor, resources, and thought).
Example: My wage is higher than last year.
en: salaire
Workplace health promotion
phrase
Workplace health promotion is the combined efforts of employers, employees, and society to improve the mental and physical health and well-being of people at work.[1] The term workplace health promotion denotes a comprehensive analysis and design of human and organizational work levels with the strategic aim of developing and improving health resources in an enterprise.
Example: The workplace health promotion helps employees to have a better life at work.
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