Mutual Trust in Industrial Relations from a Legal Perspective

Abstract

The following study aims to carry out a first approximation at the influence that legal norms can have on the construction of mutual trust between parties, which in turn would facilitate a solid and cooperative functioning between them, in order to reach a more effective model of industrial relations. This work arises from the caveat that this topic-and industrial relations in general-is found in a context of conflicts of interests and, therefore, of conflict. However, at the same time conflict relationships must be carried out on a basis of mutual trust between them. The study analyses how a mature system of industrial relations has to act in a double perspective of conflict and mutual trust, establishing the limits and the spheres which neither one or the other can surpass. Therefore, a first action from the legal norm should be to tackle the most pathological behaviors and then the ones that face the most superficial or external realities of the phenomenon. However, this superficial perspective corresponds to what we would call the hard law perspective of traditional interventions, but which doesn't cover the whole scope of possible actions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)