labour relations

British  

plural noun

1. 1. collective relations between the management of an organization and its employees or employees' representatives

   2. a set of such relations in a wider context, such as in an industry, or in a national economy

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Example Sentences

The bigger question now is whether other workers will follow suit and reverse a decades-old decline in industrial action that has seen employers gain the upper hand in labour relations.

From Reuters • Jul. 26, 2022

"We want to recover the balance in labour relations that deteriorated under the previous reform," Unai Sordo, head of CCOO, Spain's biggest union, told Reuters.

From Reuters • Nov. 25, 2021

Orgreave marked a turning point in the 1984-85 miners’ strike, and for labour relations in the UK.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2017

They also tend to have better labour relations, according to studies by Holger Mueler and Thomas Philippon of New York University’s Stern business school.

From Economist • Oct. 30, 2014

Maintenance of fair incomes requires extensive labour relations and social security laws.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas