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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 general knowledge

EWG

  1. Empowered Work Group

  2. Employee Work Group

  3. Engineering work Grow

  4. Enpowered work Grow
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

EWG stands for Empowered Work Group in organizational/management contexts. 'Empowered' is the correct adjective form (not 'Enpowered'), and 'Work Group' is standard terminology. The other options either use incorrect grammar ('Employee' without empowerment context) or misspellings ('Enpowered', 'Grow' instead of Group).

Multiple choice general knowledge

People working abroad will also be registered

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Census registration typically covers usual residents of the country, not those living abroad. People working abroad who are not present in the country during the census period are not counted in the census figures. This follows international standard census practices.

Multiple choice general knowledge

bonus

  1. reward

  2. raise

  3. cash

  4. employer
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A bonus is an additional payment or benefit given beyond what is normally expected, functioning as a reward for performance, service, or as part of compensation. While related to cash or salary increases, 'reward' best captures the conceptual meaning of something extra given as acknowledgment or incentive.

Multiple choice softskills communication

It is sometimes difficult to persuade workers to wear the proper protective [CLOTHING]

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence 'It is sometimes difficult to persuade workers to wear the proper protective [CLOTHING]' is grammatically correct. 'Clothing' is an uncountable noun meaning garments in general, so it correctly remains singular without -s. You would not say 'clothings' - just as you wouldn't say 'furnitures'.

Multiple choice technology

A Work Party is

  1. An entity that interested in the work, but typically doesn’t perform the work

  2. Anyone who is in your Workgroup

  3. Only the originator and the manager

  4. None of the Above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A Work Party represents a person, group, or organization that has a stake in the work but typically does not perform the work themselves. Examples include customers, suppliers, or stakeholders who need to be notified or involved in the process. Option B is incorrect because a Work Party is external to the Workgroup. Option C is too narrow - Work Parties extend beyond just originators and managers.

Multiple choice

Directions: Answer the following question with the appropriate information from the reading passage. Mark

True, if the statement agrees with the information False, if the statement contradicts the information Not Given, if there is no information given in the passage

An employee who takes leave due to any accident at work is entitled to apply for statutory sick pay.

Directions: Choose the most correct answer based on the given reading.

Every employer has a duty to protect his employees and inform them about health and safety issues that may affect them. He also has a legal obligation to pay his employees statutory sick pay, or contractual sick pay if they are entitled to the same. Apart from this, every employer needs to report serious work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous incidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of the Incident Contact Centre. He must report all deaths, major injuries (for example, a broken arm or broken ribs) and an injury/disease which hinders an employee’s normal functioning at his job for more than three days.

Every employer has to carry out a risk assessment in order to address health and safety issues of his employees and visitors. He should make sure that sufficient first aid equipment is made available. Employees themselves must also take reasonable care over their own health and safety.

Any injury even if it is minor should be recorded in employer’s 'accident book'. All employers, except those owning very small companies, must keep an accident book. It's mainly for the benefit of employees, as it provides a useful record of happenings and events occurring in an organization.  It is also beneficial in cases where an employee needs to take some time off the work and subsequently wishes to claim compensation. Moreover, it helps the employer in taking action to stop accidents in future.

In case an employee needs some time off because of an accident at work, he will have the right to apply for statutory sick pay only. However, an employer may have a scheme for paying more for leave due to accident, or may even decide to pay extra at his discretion.

In case an employee gets injured at work place and wants to make a claim for compensation, the claim must be made within three years of the date of the accident. For that, he may need the services of a lawyer. In case, the employee is a member of a trade union, he may also take the help of its legal services.

 

  1. True

  2. False

  3. Not Given
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Refer second last paragraph.

Multiple choice

The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 provides the following industrial relations machinery for resolution of conflicts except

  1. conciliation

  2. arbitration

  3. negotiations

  4. adjudication
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 formally provides for conciliation (machinery for amicable settlement), arbitration (voluntary or compulsory reference to arbitrator), and adjudication (labor court, tribunal, or national tribunal). Negotiations are not a statutory mechanism under the Act - they are the direct bargaining process between employers and employees that occurs before these formal mechanisms are invoked.

Multiple choice

Some commentators comment that because workers are becoming accustomed to an economy heading south, businesses are finding that they can lay off employees without provoking strong public reaction.

  1. are finding that they can lay off employees without provoking

  2. find that they could lay off employees without provoking

  3. find that they were capable of laying off workers and not provoke

  4. are finding that they could lay off workers without provoking
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; the sentence is correct in the original format as it uses the right parallelism (are becoming…are finding…without provoking)

Multiple choice

A period of three months is even so much that the best employers are willing to wait for a non-performing employee to get his act together.

  1. even so much that

  2. as much as even

  3. even as much as

  4. even so much as

  5. so much as even
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; by placing 'even' just before 'the best employers', the sentence makes it clear that even the best employers are unwilling to wait more than three months for a wayward employee to mend his ways.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is concerned with trade unions?

  1. INTUC

  2. GNDU

  3. OCA

  4. NRI
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

INTUC (Indian National Trade Union Congress) is one of India's largest trade union organizations, specifically concerned with workers' rights and trade union activities. The other options are different entities: GNDU is Guru Nanak Dev University, OCA typically refers to optical associations, and NRI stands for Non-Resident Indian.