Labour and Industrial Law – II
University of Jammu · LL.B. Semester 4 · LLB253
Unit I
Concept of Social Security: Origin and Development inIndia · Committees, Corporation, Standing Committee and Medical Benefit council under the Employees State Insurance, Act,1948 · Benefits under the employees’State Insurance Act,1948 · Claims and adjudication of disputes under the Employees State Insurance Act,1948 · Unorganized Labour Social Security Act,2008
Unit II — Factories Act 1948
Obligation of employer under the Factories Act, 1948: Health, Welfare, Safety of workmen. · Hazardous process: Employment of young persons, working hours for adults and annual leave with wages under the Factories Act,1948 · Protection of weaker section of labour under the Interstate Migrant Workman (regulation of employment and condition of service Act,1979)
Unit III — Code of Wages, 2019 along with Central Rules of 2020
Salient Features of Code of wages and Central rules. · Definition of wages (minimum wage, fair wage and livingwage) · Regulation and Fixation of minimum rate of wages · Resolution of Disputes · Offences and Penalties under the Code
Unit IV — Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923
Main Features · Definition of Employer, Employee, Disablement · Principles governing compensation · Employers Liability · Amount of compensation · Doctrine of Added Peril. · Settlement of disputes and authority for settlement.