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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

Directions: Choose the correct option for the given question:

______ is/are the most suitable method(s) of wage payment when quality of work is of prime importance.

  1. Piece rate

  2. Time wage

  3. Wages on the basis of number of days worked

  4. Piece wage and extra wage

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Time-based wage systems are preferred when quality is the priority, as they do not incentivize workers to rush through tasks to increase quantity at the expense of quality.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the correct option for the given question:

______ method of wage payment provides for high rate to efficient workers.

  1. Taylor's differential piece rate system

  2. Gantt's piece rate system

  3. Time rate system

  4. Emerson's piece rate system

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Taylor's differential piece rate system uses two different piece rates: a lower rate for inefficient workers and a higher rate for efficient workers who meet or exceed the standard output.

Multiple choice

The point about payment of wages is given to prove:

  1. how less they are paid

  2. to contrast with government teachers

  3. to show their effectiveness

  4. to show that government teachers are overpaid
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The last line of third paragraph �Teachers are paid 600 take a month and reach children that government teachers (paid six times, pas much) cannot has been used by author to compare contrast between the two both into terms of salary as well as effectiveness. Therefore option (2) is most appropriate reason for the point about payment of wages of two.

Multiple choice

What was meant by the term Vishti ?

  1. Forced unpaid labour

  2. Unforced paid labour

  3. Forced paid labour

  4. Unforced unpaid labour
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Vishti refers to a system of forced, unpaid labor that was common in ancient India. It was often exacted by the state or landlords from the peasantry.

Multiple choice

A BYOD policy or bring-your-own-device policy states that employees should be given a stipend to purchase and maintain technology equipment of their choosing instead of being issued PC's and laptops from the company. Which of the following represents BYOD?

  1. A person using company's cell phone

  2. A man working on office PC

  3. A woman using her own laptop at office

  4. A person using office telephone for company work
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

BYOD clearly states that employees should be given a stipend to purchase and maintain technology equipment of their choosing instead of being issued PC's and laptops from the company.

Multiple choice

What is meant by “Employee Absenteeism”?

  1. <span style="line-height:=" lang="EN-US">Employees presence in the work place

  2. <span style="line-height:=" lang="EN-US">Employees late presence at the work place

  3. <span style="line-height:=" lang="EN-US">Failure of employee at the work spot at scheduled time

  4. <span style="lang=EN-US">None of the above<o:p></o:p>
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Generally when an employee fails to be at the work spot at the scheduled time then it is called “Employee Absenteeism”.