This course covers the fundamental concepts of Employment Relations (ER). The employment/industrial relations sphere provides critical information for understanding a country’s socio-political and economic structure. Assessing employment /industrial relations first-hand means, assessing the institutional and economic structure of the both markets: the market for goods and services and the labour market. Secondly it provides knowledge of relational issues about the parties involved, such as the individual and/or organized bodies of the employers, employees and the state. The overall picture and the related discussions of the employment relations of a country may complement a comprehensive country survey.; historical analysis of the development of ER; contemporary social, economic and political issues in employment and industrial relations; the “future of work” discussions and projections.