INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

A Zomato rider, a nurse at a private hospital and a teacher at a trust-run school all do paid work for someone else. Yet if each of them raises a dispute with the boss, the law may treat only one or two of them as being in an “industry”. Why should it matter whether your workplace counts as an industry? Because that one word decides whether a labour tribunal will hear you at all.

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An industrial dispute is a dispute between employers and workers (or either group among themselves) connected with employment, non-employment, terms of employment or conditions of labour, and it can only arise in an “industry”, which the Industrial Relations Code 2020 defines as systematic activity carried on by co-operation between employer and worker for producing or distributing goods or services to satisfy human wants.

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