workplace disputes
Professional friction events
Workplace disputes are conflicts between employees, or between employees and management, arising from working conditions, pay, treatment, or interpersonal friction.
The term appears frequently in legal and HR contexts: The company hired a mediator to resolve workplace disputes.
Labor unions often formalize procedures for handling such conflicts through grievance processes.
- hearingsOfficial evidence-gathering sessions
- employment lawStatutes governing workplace relations
- arbitrationNon-court binding dispute resolution
- bullyingAggressive repeated intimidation
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
hostile work environment · unfair dismissal · harassment · wrongful termination · constructive dismissal · wage theft · personality clash · toxic · office politics · whistleblower · favoritism · retaliation · passive-aggressiveness · micromanagement · performance review · tribunal · grievance procedure · formal complaint
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- labor relationslabor relations, collective agreement, union elections, bargaining, labor negotiations
- labor arbitrationarbitrators, binding decisions, case files, unfair dismissal, just cause