NEW and revised legislation, easier unionisation and government involvement for a tri-partite solution are what is needed for to advance industrial relations (IR) in Trinidad and Tobago, according to panellists at the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business' seminar Beyond Bargaining: Building Sustainable Workplaces in T&T, held at the school’s Mt Hope campus on June 17.

Speaking during the panel discussion titled Balancing the Bottom Line: Industrial Relations in Action, Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) assistant general secretary Trevor Johnson said industrial relations and the way it was managed were critical to the success of any organisation.

“If you have an effective twinning of labour-management relations with human resource management and industrial relations management, it will rebound to the benefit of your organisation.”