The Relationship Between an Empolyer Abd an Isolated Employee
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Kahn-Freund (1983: 18) argues that “ the relations between an employer and an isolated employee or worker is typically a relation between a bearer of power and one who is not a bearer of power”. Discuss with reference to the key institutions influencing the employment relationship and the three perspectives.
Relationship has been in existence for many numbers of years. The employers are views as the one in power within the relationship and there is therefore the need within the relationship for the intervention of external powers such as the trade union, government and on rare extreme circumstances the employer’s organization. The roles of this people are to settle any dispute that rises from the so called power of imbalance. What this essay will try to do, is to look at the power within the relationship between the workers and their employers. However for this to be done we need to understand what employment relationship is all about. Apart from the aspect of slavery and forced labour, the relationship between a firm and a worker where the worker find employment is what is known as contractual. The legal obligations between workers and their employers have always been stated in individual contract. And what this simply means is that they workers are agreeing at their own accord to negotiate with the terms at which working for the firm or company in place of wages. However in return for the wages the employer are willing to part it means that a large part of the workers life is surrendered. The opposite is the case for the employer they don’t sacrifice and there is no personal involvement either in offering employment. On the other hand the worker freedom is been sacrificed to the employer.
One can argue that as a result of this sacrifices the Trade Union are looking at ways of improving the ways at which workers have to bargain for working in a very degrading way. What they were able to do was to address the position of working over there
Kahn-Freund (1983: 18) argues that “ the relations between an employer and an isolated employee or worker is typically a relation between a bearer of power and one who is not a bearer of power”. Discuss with reference to the key institutions influencing the employment relationship and the three perspectives.
Relationship has been in existence for many numbers of years. The employers are views as the one in power within the relationship and there is therefore the need within the relationship for the intervention of external powers such as the trade union, government and on rare extreme circumstances the employer’s organization. The roles of this people are to settle any dispute that rises from the so called power of imbalance. What this essay will try to do, is to look at the power within the relationship between the workers and their employers. However for this to be done we need to understand what employment relationship is all about. Apart from the aspect of slavery and forced labour, the relationship between a firm and a worker where the worker find employment is what is known as contractual. The legal obligations between workers and their employers have always been stated in individual contract. And what this simply means is that they workers are agreeing at their own accord to negotiate with the terms at which working for the firm or company in place of wages. However in return for the wages the employer are willing to part it means that a large part of the workers life is surrendered. The opposite is the case for the employer they don’t sacrifice and there is no personal involvement either in offering employment. On the other hand the worker freedom is been sacrificed to the employer.
One can argue that as a result of this sacrifices the Trade Union are looking at ways of improving the ways at which workers have to bargain for working in a very degrading way. What they were able to do was to address the position of working over there
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