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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 social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

In the industrial sector, the term 'gratuity' is treated as a __________ from the employer to his employees for the services rendered.

  1. Donation

  2. Profit Share

  3. Gift

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

Gratuity is a lump sum payment made by an employer to an employee in recognition of their long-term service, often viewed as a reward or gift for loyalty.

Multiple choice social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

Contract labour has been increasing in the country in the recent years— select the correct statements related to this fact using the code given below:
1. At present, around one fourth of all registered manufacturing workers are on contract in comparison to just $12$ per cent of late nineties.
2. This is higher in the states with more rigid labour laws.
3. India needs to tame down the instances of regulatory cholesterol.

  1. 1 and 2

  2. 1 only

  3. 3 only

  4. 1, 2 and 3
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

As per experts, slow pace of labour reforms is the main reason behind this incidence. Economic Survey 2015-16 terms it 'regulatory cholesterol'. 

Multiple choice social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

Job factors includes ____________.

  1. Suspension

  2. Wages

  3. Salary

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Job factors encompass various elements of employment, including compensation and disciplinary measures. Since wages and salary are both forms of compensation, 'All of these' is the correct choice.

Multiple choice social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

_____________ is the process of negotiation between employers and the representatives of a unit of employees aimed at reaching agreements that regulate working conditions.

  1. Participation management

  2. Collective bargaining

  3. Code of conduct

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

Collective bargaining is the formal process where employers and employee representatives negotiate terms of employment, such as wages and working conditions.

Multiple choice social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

The responsibility of the organization to the workers includes:
(i) The payment of fair wages
(ii) Arrangement of proper training and education of the workers
(iii) The installation of an efficient grievance handling system
(iv) Welfare of family members
(v) The provision of the best possible working conditions
Identify the correct combination:

  1. (i), (ii), (iii) and (v)

  2. (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)

  3. (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

  4. (i), (iii), (iv) and (v)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Organizations have a responsibility to provide fair wages, training, grievance systems, and safe working conditions. Welfare of family members is generally considered a social or state responsibility rather than a direct organizational duty in this context.

Multiple choice social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

Why are there lesser women in the workforce?

  1. Where men are able to earn high incomes, families discourage female members from taking up jobs

  2. Many activities for the household engaged in by women are not recognised as productive work

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Compared to females, more males are found to be working. This is because where men are able to earn high incomes, families discourage female members from taking up jobs. Many activities for the household engaged in by women are not recognised as productive work. This narrow definition of work leads to non-recognition of women’s work and, therefore, to the underestimation of the number of women workers in the country.
Multiple choice social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

Workers who own and operate an enterprise to earn their livelihood are known as ________.

  1. employers

  2. self-employed

  3. wage labourers

  4. owners
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
Workers who own and operate an enterprise to earn their livelihood are known as self-employed. Wage labourers are casually engaged in others’ farms and, in return, get a remuneration for the work done. Employers are the people who engage workers in their enterprise.
Multiple choice social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

Fill in the blanks from the alternatives given.
Illiterate people are exploited by not being paid their _______ wages.

  1. maximum

  2. highest

  3. minimum

  4. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Exploitation often involves paying workers less than the legally mandated minimum wage, which is a common issue for vulnerable or illiterate workers.

Multiple choice evs who will do this work? cleanliness let's clean together personal and public cleanliness

What difficulties cleaning attendants have to face during their jobs?

  1. They do not get respect.

  2. They bear the offensive smell.

  3. They do not get holidays.

  4. Both A and B.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Many times cleaners don't get respect from society or wherever he/she is cleaning, their jobs for other people are considered as responsible job. They have to tolerate many bad or foul smell day by day. Also, they do not get holiday even on some special occations. But here best suitable optoin will be both A and B.

Multiple choice inferences from the text reading comprehension english

A company is considering changing its policy concerning daily working hours. Currently, this company requires all employees to arrive at work at 8 a.m. The proposed policy would permit each employee to decide when to arrive from as early as 6 a.m. to as late as 11 a.m.


The adoption of this policy would be most likely to decrease employees productivity if the employees' job functions required them to _______.

  1. work without interruption from other employees

  2. consult at least once a day with employees from other companies

  3. submit their work for a supervisors eventual approval

  4. interact frequently with each other through out the entire workday

  5. undertake projects that take several days to complete
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Going through the options, we note that A is incorrect because the time people come in (central to the argument) has no relation whatsoever  with whether people get interrupted or not, option B is out because consulting with other companies is a non-issue as people would still putting in at least 6 hours of work on a normal day, and option C is also incorrect because it implies that the supervisor would 'eventually' sign off on everybody's work, it is not time bound. However, if C had stated that the supervisor would need to sign off that very day, then C could have been the answer. Option E is also incorrect as people would still be at work 5 days a week so this should not be an issue. This leaves us with D - if the workers are required to interact with each other throughout the ENTIRE day, then the adoption of the given policy would most likely decrease the employee's productivity. Thus, D is the correct answer.

Multiple choice social science public health and the government food security and related aspects food security rural development programmes for poverty eradication poverty : challenge facing india poverty as a challenge role of the government in health

What are the provisions of the Equal Wages Act:

  1. Equal wages should be paid for equal work.

  2. Women are given the political rights.

  3. Women constitute half of the work in public life.

  4. Women should not be given equal wages.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Equal Remuneration Act (Equal Wages Act) mandates that men and women receive equal pay for the same work or work of a similar nature.

Multiple choice concept of social responsibility organization of commerce and management industrial pollution and degradation of environment environmental values and ethics industrial pollution accelerated with the start of industrial revolution social responsibility towards the environment

Fairness in employment practices centers on ________.

  1. hiring no family members of friends

  2. giving people equal rewards for accomplishing the same tasks

  3. obeying equal employment opportunity legislation

  4. avoiding conflicts of interests
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A company is said to have adopted fairness in employment practice when it follows a policy of recruiting on the basis of qualification and other merits and not on the basis of bribe, recommendation etc.

This would avoid conflicts among workforce and top level management.

Multiple choice india: states and union territories overview of india general knowledge

Workers in the tertiary economic activities are called ______________.

  1. Pink-collar work force

  2. Blue-collar work force

  3. Red-collar work force

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

Tertiary economic activities involve services, and workers in these sectors are commonly referred to as pink-collar workers.

Multiple choice geography state of industries in india meaning and classification of industries industrialisation and urbanisation urbanisation

A sick industrial unit is one___________.

  1. which borrow money from bank for its fixed assets.

  2. which is unable to make profits more than 10 per cent of its capital employed.

  3. which is unable to perform its normal functions and activities of production of goods and services at a responsible profit on a sustained basis.

  4. where most of the employees are sick.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A sick industrial unit is defined by its inability to maintain sustained production and profitability, leading to financial distress and operational failure.

Multiple choice geography state of industries in india meaning and classification of industries industrialisation and urbanisation urbanisation

Which of these is not a cause of industrial sickness?

  1. Fraudulent activities

  2. Faulty management

  3. Over strength of employees

  4. Strikes and lockouts
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Industrial sickness is typically caused by internal factors like mismanagement or external factors like market changes. Strikes and lockouts are labor issues, not inherent causes of long-term industrial sickness.