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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN NAMIBIA

Industrial relations deals with labor relationship or in other words employment relationship. It places emphasis on and joint regulations.The industrial relationship includes a tripartite relationship which includes the employee represented by the trade union, the employer represented by the employer's organization and the state as a third party. The relationship between the employer and the employee a primary relationship while the relationship between the state and employees or the employer is called secondary relationship. maintaining this relationship requires effort from all the 3 sides but mainly from the employees side and the employers side, failing to do so results into labor disputes. from the beginning of this year we have seen an increasing number in labor cases which results in industrial actions e.g strike and lockout. The recent industrial action was when polytechnic of Namibia (administrative employees)went on a 3 day strike after reaching deadlock on wage negotiations. The just like any other strike affected its operations as well as academic life of students.