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Labour and Industrial Relations

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Labour and Industrial Relations involves the study of employment laws, workers unions, and workplace dynamics. This page features practice questions on critical topics such as equal pay, gratuity, overtime, and labor disputes. These questions are essential for law entrance exams and competitive tests.

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Labour and Industrial Relations Questions

Multiple choice

Which one of the following statements is true?

  1. The general funds of a registered Trade Union shall not be spent on the payment of salaries.

  2. The registered Trade Union may constitute a separate fund for the promotion of the civic and political interests.

  3. No appeal lies against the order of refusal of the Registrar to registrar a Trade union.

  4. Every registered Trade Union shall not be a body corporate.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A registered Trade Union may constitute a separate fund from contributions separately levied for or made to that fund from which payments may be made for the promotion of the civic and political interests of its members.

Multiple choice

Which of the following benefits has not been provided under the Employee’s State Insurance Act, 1948?

  1. Sickness Benefit

  2. Employment injury benefit

  3. Children’s Allowance

  4. Maternity Benefit
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Children allowances are not covered under Employee’s State Insurance Act, 1948. Children allowances are stated under the Children's Allowances Act, 1944. Employee’s State Insurance Act, 1948 is an act to provide for certain benefits to employees in case of sickness, maternity and employment injury and to make provision for certain other matters in relation thereto.

Multiple choice

An employer is liable to pay compensation to his workman under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 for

  1. injury caused

  2. injury caused by accident

  3. injury caused in course of employment

  4. injury caused by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

As per Section 3 of Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923,

 An employer is liable to pay compensation to his workman under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 for injury caused by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is an item of non - operating activity?

  1. Payment of wages to labourers

  2. Cash payment to suppliers of goods

  3. Cash payment to acquire fixed assets

  4. Cash payment of octroi
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C Correct answer
Explanation

It is an item of non - operating activity. Since the payment is made to acquire or purchase fixed asset, which is not the principal revenue earning activity of the business.

Multiple choice

To which of the following do the employees relate?

  1. Work smart

  2. Work hard

  3. Do not wok

  4. Work all day all night
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

For an employee, time is money. For an entrepreneur, leverage is money. Employees ‘work hard,’ and their efforts and rewards are linear. Therefore, employees relate to work hard.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, four statements with blanks are given. Choose the option which fills in the blanks, the maximum number of times.

A. The manager was ________ with the task of placating the warring factions of the trade union. B. Soon after the debacle, he was ________ of all his powers and was forced to go on a prolonged leave. C. The government has ________ its equity stake in several PSUs. D. ________ of his authority, he was useless.

  1. assigned

  2. stripped off

  3. put

  4. given
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

While the term suited to fill in the first blank is 'assigned', rest of the blanks can only be filled using term 'stripped off' to make sense. This marks term 'stripped off' given in option (2) as most valid of the given choices.

Multiple choice

Which of the following excuses cannot be made by labour to sit idle?

  1. Machine breakdown

  2. Shortage of raw materials

  3. Power failure

  4. Shortage of employees

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D Correct answer
Explanation

The labour can work even if there is shortage of employees. This excuse cannot be made by labour to sit idle,.  They cannot make the excuse that production is not possible with shortage of employees. The labour has all the required things to work, even if there is shortage of employees.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question, fill the blank space with the best choice from the given options.

The majority of workers _________ come on duty.

  1. was

  2. were

  3. has

  4. have
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D Correct answer
Explanation

'The majority of workers' takes a plural verb because it refers to multiple individual workers. Even though 'majority' is singular in form, phrases like 'majority of + plural noun' use plural verbs. 'Has' and 'was' are singular, while 'were' doesn't match the present perfect context with 'come'.