Labour and Industrial Law
SNDT Women's University · LL.B. Semester 2 · 2003
Unit I — Module I (2 credits): Trade Unions, Standing Orders and Resolution of Industrial Disputes
Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining: trade unionism, definitions, registration, funds, immunities, collective bargaining · Standing Orders: Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946, certification, modification, enforcement, penalties · Resolution of Industrial Dispute; Conciliation Machinery (works committee, conciliation officer, board, court of enquiry); Adjudication Machinery (labour court, industrial tribunal, national tribunal); unfair labour practice
- Historical reasons for the formation of combinations of workers, legal impediments
- Trade Union — Definition, Registration and Recognition
- Immunities in trade disputes: Criminal and Civil
- Standing orders
- INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES
- Mechanism to dispute Resolution
- Concept of 'Workman'
- Unfair Labour Practices
Unit II — Module II (2 credits): Economic Coercion, Factories Act, Maternity Benefit
Instruments of economic coercion: strike, lock-outs, lay-off, retrenchment, closure; procedure for retrenchment; disciplinary action and domestic enquiry; notice of change · Factories Act, 1948: factory, manufacturing process, worker, occupier; health, safety, welfare; working hours; young persons; annual leave; women · Maternity Benefit Act, 1961