Labour Management & Industrial Relations Committee
Goals:
Contribute to national policies and legalisation on Human Resource Management and development issues.
Engage in dialogues with government including formal responses to key proposals.
Develop individual and collective partnerships with government and trade unions in respect of employment relations.
Encourage research in all aspects of the field of labour, employment and workplace.
Key Responsibilities:
Promote the development of management systems and practices that would influence the maintenance of healthy employer-employee relations in Barbados.
Contribute to national forum and dialogue on issues that would influence the direction of industrial relations in Barbados.
Draw on empirical research evidence and the experiences of HRMAB members to reflect views of the profession.
Disseminate to researchers, practitioners and the public through various media research results, discussions, exchanges and ideas of interest to members.
Suggested Tasks:
Expedite the publication of the industrial relations practices manual developed by the Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC) in 1995.
Meet with Ministry of Labour, Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations (CTUSAB) and (BEC) to further the development of partnership with them.
Disseminate information that would keep members abreast of proposed labour legislation and guide the implementation of their employee relations strategies.
Host public discussion utilising TV/Radio or symposia to provide mass education in Industrial Relations (I.R.) matters.