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About the Employee Relations Discipline

The Employee Relations Discipline concerns the relationship of employees with the organization and with each other. It includes the processes of developing, implementing, administering and analyzing the employer-employee relationship; performing ongoing evaluation of it; managing employee performance; ensuring that relations with employees comply with applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations; and resolving workplace disputes. It also includes matters that focus on HR careers, communications, legal and regulatory issues, technology, metrics and outsourcing in the employee relations field, as well as effective employee relations practices and global employee relations issues. It does not include matters involving union organizing, union elections, collective bargaining and ongoing union-management relations, which are encompassed in the Labor Relations Discipline.

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