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Industrial Dispute Act - 1

Tests knowledge of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 including definitions, procedures, and judicial precedents

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Lockout is

  1. for trade reasons
  2. an act on the part of employer taken to coerce or pressurise the labour
  3. not an intentional act
  4. not concerned with industrial dispute
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the correct option for the given statements.

Assertion (A): Definition of lay-off as given under the Industrial Disputes Act does not confer any power on the management to lay-off.
Reason (R): Financial stringency cannot constitute a ground for lay-off.

  1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  3. (A) is true, but (R) is false.
  4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Consider the following statements and choose the correct option.

I. Lock-out indicates the closure of the place of business.
II. Lock-out indicates the closure of the business itself.
III. Suspension of work due to trade reasons constitutes lockout.
IV. Lock-out does not include discharge.

  1. I, II and III are correct.
  2. II and III are correct.
  3. I and IV are correct.
  4. II and III are correct.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Industrial Disput Act, 1947 aims at

  1. providing social security benefits to the workmen
  2. regulating conditions of work in industries
  3. investigation and settlement of industrial disputes
  4. regulating the employment of women during certain periods
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Consider the following judicial decisions:

I. Hindustan Steel Ltd. vs. Presiding Officer
II. Management of KSRT Corp, Bangalore vs. M. Boraih
III. Pipraich Sugar Mills vs. Mazdoor Union
IV. Management of W.B. India Ltd. vs. Jaganath

What is the correct sequence in which these judicial decisions were rendered?

  1. I, IV, II and III
  2. IV, II, III and I
  3. II, III, I and IV
  4. III, II, IV and I
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The power of the appropriate Government under Section 10 to refer industrial disputes for adjudication is

  1. an administrative power
  2. legislative power
  3. judicial power
  4. quasi-judicial power
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not an ‘industry’?

  1. Forest Department of State
  2. Indian Red Cross Society
  3. Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries
  4. Khadi and Village Industries Board
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Consider the following judicial decisions on the meaning of industry:

I. Indian Red Cross Society V. Additional Labour Court, Chandigarh
II. Dhanrajgiri Hospital V. Workmen
III. State of Punjab V. Kuldeep Singh
IV. Prema Govinda V. Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association, Bangalore

The correct order in which these judicial decisions were rendered is

  1. II, III, I and IV
  2. III, II, IV and I
  3. IV, III, I and II
  4. II, I, III and IV
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following does not relate to “industrial dispute”?

  1. Dispute or difference connected with employment of labour
  2. Dispute or difference connected with non-employment of labour
  3. Dispute or difference connected with the terms of employment or with the conditions of labour
  4. Dispute or difference connected with the election of a trade union
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A certificate of registration of a trade union is

  1. rebuttable evidence
  2. irrebuttable evidence
  3. conclusive evidence
  4. None of these
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is related to “settlement”?

  1. Strike
  2. Lock-out
  3. Retrenchment
  4. Conciliation
  5. Lay off
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the correct statements on industrial dispute:

I. Industrial dispute will subsist inspite of closure of industry.
II. An industrial dispute can arise when a demand is made by a workman and denied by the employer.
III. Once a dispute is referred for adjudication, the presumption is that it is an industrial dispute.
IV. Employer’s failure to keep his verbal assurances is an industrial dispute.

  1. I and II are correct.
  2. II and III are correct.
  3. III and IV are correct.
  4. I, II and III are correct.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Layoff means

  1. removing a workman
  2. retirement of a workman
  3. dismissing a workman
  4. inability of employer to provide work to a workman
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Permanent closing down of a part of place of work is called

  1. layoff
  2. retrenchment
  3. closure
  4. lockout
  5. strike
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A strike means

  1. mere cessation of work
  2. cessation of work under common understanding
  3. cessation of work coupled with gherao of management
  4. slowing down the production
  5. All of above
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