2. CONTENTS
• Introduction on industrial legislation.
• Objectives of industrial legislations.
• Labour legislation.
• Classification of labour legislation.
• TRADE UNION ACT,1926.
• INDUSTRIAL ACT,1947.
• MINIMUM WAGES ACT,1948.
• FACTORIES ACT,1948.
• Industrial dispute.
• Settlement of industrial disputes.
3. INTRODUCTION
• A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government to
regulate working conditions or the acquisition, processing and
disposal of materials by the aggregate of factories, companies
and enterprises in one or more manufacturing or technically
productive fields.
• Industrial law is the branch of law that deals with legal aspects
of three different but inter-related set of entities - Industries,
labour and governmental agencies.
4. OBJECTIVES OF INDUSTRIAL
LEGISLATIONS
• To protect the workers from profit seeking exploiters.
• To promote cordial industrial relations between employers and
employees.
• To preserve the health safety and welfare of workers.
• To product the interests of women and children working in the
factories.
• It establishes a legal system that facilitates productive individual and
collective employment relationships, and therefore a productive
economy .
5. LABOUR LEGISLATION
• The term ‘Labour Legislation’ is used to cover all the laws
which have been enacted to deal with employment and non-
employment, wages, working conditions, industrial relations,
social security and welfare of persons employed in industries.
• Labour legislation refers to all laws of the government to
provide social and economic security to the workers.
7. SCOPE OF LABOUR LEGISLATION
• Industrial relations certifications of unions, labour
management relations, collective bargaining and unfair labour
practices.
• Workplace health and safety.
• Employment standards, including general holidays, annual
leave, working hours, unfair dismissals, minimum wage, lay-
off procedures, and severance pay.
8. CLASSIFICATION OF INDUSTRIAL
LEGISLATIONS IN INDIA
Labour Laws may be classified under the following 6 heads:
I. Regulative Laws/Laws related to Regulation of Industrial
Relations such as:
• Trade Unions Act, 1926.
• Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.
II. Wage-related Laws/Laws governing wages such as:
• Minimum Wages Act, 1948.
• Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
• The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976.
9. CLASSIFICATION OF INDUSTRIAL
LEGISLATIONS IN INDIA
• III. Protective laws/Laws related to Working Hours, Conditions of
Service and Employment such as:
• Factories Act, 1948.
• IV. Welfare laws/Laws related to Deprived and Disadvantaged Sections
of the Society such as:
• Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986.
• V. Laws related to Social Security such as:
• Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923.
• Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948.
• Employees’ Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.
• Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.
• Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.
10. TRADE UNION ACT,1926
• To protect workers against exploitation by employer to
represent the grievance of employees on behalf of them to the
management.
• To protect rights of the workers provided by the employment
or labour laws.
• To take participation in management for decision-making in
connection to workers and to take disciplinary action against
the worker who commits in-disciplinary action.
11. INDUSTRIAL ACT,1947
• To prevent and settle industrial disputes between the
employers and workers.
• To secure and prserve amity and good relations between the
employers and workmen trough an internal work committee.
• To promote good relation through an external machinery of
conciliation,courts of inquiry,labour courts,industrial tribunals
and national tribunals.
12. MINIMUM WAGES ACT,1948
• To provide minimum wages to the workers working in an
organised sector.
• To stop exploitation of the workers.
• To empower the government to take steps for fixing
minimum wages and to revising it in a timely
manner.
13. FACTORIES ACT ,1948
• Factories Act includes:
• Health .
• Safety .
• Welfare .
• Working hours of adults.
• Annual leave with wages.
15. • Provisions Regarding Safety:
1) Fencing of Machinery.
2) Work on or near Machinery in motion.
3) Employment of Young Persons on Dangerous Machines.
4) Striking Gear and Devices for cutting off power.
5) Self Acting Machines.
6) Casing of New Machinery.
7) Prohibition of Employment of Women & Children near
Cotton openers.
8) Hoists, lifts, Lifting Machines and others.
9) Revolving Machinery.
10)Pressure Plant.
OBJECTIVES OF FACTORIES
ACT,1948
16. OBJECTIVES OF FACTORIES
ACT ,1948
• Provisions Regarding Welfare of Workers:
Washing facilities.
Facilities for storing & drying clothing.
Facilities for sitting.
First Aid facilities.
Canteens, shelters, rest rooms & lunch rooms.
Creches.
Welfare officers.
17. OBJECTIVES OF FACTORIES
ACT,1948
• Provisions Regarding Hazardous Processes:
1) Constitution of Site Appraisal Committee.
2) Compulsory Disclosure of Information.
3) Special Responsibility of the occupier in relation to
Hazardous processes.
4) Providing for medical examination of every worker at
intervals.
18. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES
• An industrial dispute may be defined as a conflict or difference
of opinion between management and workers on the terms of
employment.
• It is a disagreement between an employer and employees
representatives usually a trade union.
• When an industrial dispute occurs,both the parties, that is
management and the workmen,try to pressurize each other.
