Unfair Labour Practices

A worker in a Taloja factory is dismissed the week after she signs up as a member of a new union. The letter says “misconduct”. Everyone on the shop floor knows the real reason. Meanwhile, down the road, a union cuts off the factory’s gate and will not let non-striking staff in. Both sides have crossed a line that is not a strike rule or a lay-off rule. Indian labour law calls these acts unfair labour practices, and it lists them. What is on the list, and who can commit them?

In two minutes

An unfair labour practice is any practice listed in the Second Schedule to the Industrial Relations Code 2020, which section 84 forbids to every employer, worker and trade union, registered or not, and which section 86 punishes with a fine and, on repetition, possibly imprisonment.

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