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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
  1. Indefensible practices; hazardous industries; rehabilitation

  2. Minimum wages; rest and recreation; hazardous occupation

  3. Ban on hazardous jobs; exploitation-prevention; rehabilitation of the pulled out

  4. Schedule; recreation; exploitation

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The passage highlights the need to ban child labour and rehabilitate those employed. Other options are just talking vaguely about some practices.

Multiple choice
  1. Farewell to Child Labour

  2. Child Labour – The Way Forward

  3. Nibbling at the Problem

  4. Exploited Children

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The passage is mainly discussing the efforts needed to remove child labour and how much they have been successful.

Multiple choice
  1. How to go on a vacation

  2. How to be able to earn money

  3. How to be successful in life

  4. How to be able to pursue a trade or profession

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The contextual meaning is also that one is able to follow one’s dream or ambition.

Multiple choice
  1. set free and asked to go home

  2. enrolled in existing municipal schools for training

  3. directed to the corporation dispensaries for health check

  4. given free education, heath care and vocational training

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

“To be freed … and given education, health and vocational training.”

Multiple choice
  1. fixing the wages

  2. ensuring a full work schedule

  3. allowing minimum rest

  4. gearing up the machinery

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The last lines of the passage describe the importance of gearing up machinery which would add support.

Multiple choice
  1. it is least comprehensive

  2. it allows employment of a child in a prohibited job as part of family labour

  3. its definitions are clear and unambiguous

  4. its law enforcement is not strict

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

“The 1966 Act has been dubbed as a law that legitimises child labour and the target of attack particularly has been the proviso which in effect says that a child can work if it is part of family labour.”

Multiple choice
  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
  1. passage of federal laws that favored workers

  2. laws restricting immigration and naturalization

  3. poor working conditions and low wages

  4. economic depressions that had led to high unemployment

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The rise of industrialization in the late 1800s led to dangerous working conditions, long hours, and low wages. Workers formed unions to collectively bargain for better treatment and pay.

Multiple choice sectoral organisation of business private, public and global enterprises business studies

Issues affecting the privacy of the employee __________________.

  1. Anti-competitive practices

  2. Workplace surveillance

  3. Drug testing

  4. (b) and (c)

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Privacy Issues in the Workplace. Generally speaking, privacy rights are granted (if at all) by specific laws, rules, or regulations. Personnel Records:Employees generally have a right to privacy in their personnel records, except in a few specific circumstances. Employee privacy rights are the rules that limit how extensively an employer can search an employee's possessions or person; monitor their actions, speech, or correspondence; and know about their personal lives, especially but not exclusively in the workplace.