Industrial relations is a multidisciplinary field that studies the employment relationship.

Industrial relations is increasingly being called employment relations or employee relations because of the importance of nonindustrial employment relationships; this move is sometimes seen as further broadening of the human resource management trend.

Industrial relations are those between an employer and a collective workforce, almost exclusively held together by a recognised union, although this does not necessarily need to be the case. Employee relations involves all matters involving the relationship between an employee or employees and the employer and is a far broader term - which is why the phrase is most commonly used in HR departments.
So in short, employee relations could involve anything at all (absences, pay, disciplinarian), Industrial relations is specifically referring to unions.

Professionalism Change in Nature of Industry Emphasis on Individualism Philosophy of Top Management Bad Image of Trade Unions

Industrial Disputes (Rajasthan Amendment ) Act, 1970 Under this Act a union to get registered as a Representative Union should have membership of not less than 15 per cent of the total number of the workmen employed in the unit. Where there are two or more unions, the union with the largest membership shall be registered as the Representative Union.