Employee or industrial relations are the relationships between the state on the one hand and the employers’ and employees’ organizations on the other or are the relationships among the occupational organizations themselves. International Labour Organization (ILO)
Labour or industrial relations include individual relations and joint consultation between employers and work people at the place of work, collective relations between employers or the organizations and the trade unions, and the part played by the state in regulating these relations. – The Encyclopedia Britannica (2005)