Chapter 7 & Chapter 8Employee RelationManishankar Chakraborty, PhD , MBA

Department of Business Studies, ICT

Sultanate of Oman

Chapter-7

• Provision of Article 88 of Industrial Act

• Employer must take necessary precautions to protect employees from injury and dangers by-

• (a)Making sure adequate safety and hygienic conditions exist in all over the place of work

• (b)Making sure that places of work are always clean and they comply with healthy and comfortable conditions.

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• Making sure that machinery, equipment are installed and maintained in the safest possible way.

• The employer is not allowed to impose on his workers or deduct from their wages any amount to meet such provisions of protection.

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• Provision of Article 89 of Industrial Safety Act:

• It covers the following-

• (a)General precaution for protecting health in all places of work especially safety, lighting and ventilation, drinking water, lavatories, places to sleep and prevention against fire.

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• (b)Special precaution for certain type of work such as chemical work.

• The ministry may appoint inspectors to see that employers are carrying out the instructions issued from the minister specially stipulated in Article 89.

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Chapter 7

• The Factories Act

• It covers businesses using machinery. It includes-

• (a)Adequate toilet facilities to be provided.

• (b)Interior of building to be heated and ventilated.

• Floors, stairs and passages must be free from obstructions.

• Floors should not be slippery

• Machines should have protective fence to avoid injury.

• Fire escapes should be present.

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Chapter-8

• Stages in Negotiation Process

• (a)Preparation and analysis

• (b)Presentation

• (c)Searching for identifying common ground

• (d)Concluding the agreement

• (e)Writing the agreement

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• Preparation stage

• The Team

• The Leader

• The Note-taker

• The strategist

• Team discipline

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• Management team goes through three stages in preparing for negotiation-

• Analysis of information

• Establishing aims and objectives to be achieved in the negotiation process

• Planning strategy to achieve it, that involves deciding who will speak, in what order, on which issues, expecting arguments and counter arguments

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