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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 business studies insurance - introduction and importance concept, scope and social security in india concept of social security industrial relations, trade unions and social security

Which of the following would not ensure better labour relations?

  1. Proper rehabilitation of retrenched labour.

  2. Rational and pragmatic recruitment policy.

  3. Inadequate incentives for productivity of labour.

  4. Disincentives for failures.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Inadequate incentives for productivity of labour would not ensure better labour relations. Proper and adequate incentives for productivity of labor is to be provided in order to maintain a good labour relations which will help to facilitate smooth functioning of all other organizational activities.

Multiple choice political science child rights child rights and women rights rights of children and women human rights and uno

The correct meaning of bonded labour is ______________.

  1. Unforced labour for short time

  2. Forced labour on a life long basis

  3. Hazardous work

  4. Selling of human beings
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Bonded labor means forced labor as a pledge to the master as a repayment of debt. It involves the practice of exploitation of laborers who spend their whole life serving their masters for nothing. The constitution abolishes and makes bonded labor a punishable offense. 

Multiple choice historical tools and life of people in britain life in britain in the twentieth century history

People with _______ vouchers issued by the government could enter the UK.

  1. Wage

  2. Government

  3. Employment

  4. Immigration Voucher
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
  • As per the Commonwealth Immigrations Act of 1962, only those with employment vouchers issued by the government could enter the UK.
  • The employment vouchers indicated permission to work. The 1968 Commonwealth immigrations act further limited this right.
Multiple choice geography ideas of development study of population in tamil nadu population and migration human geography in tamil nadu

When are women paid for their work?

  1. When they work for their family members

  2. When they enter the labour market

  3. When they do hard work

  4. Whey they get high education
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Women are typically considered to be paid for their work when they participate in the formal labour market, as domestic or family-based work is often unpaid.

Multiple choice history socialism in europe and the russian revolution the russian revolution russian revolution the russian revolution

Which among the following is/are the main demands behind workers revolt in St. Petersburg?

  1. They demanded better pay

  2. Lesser working hours

  3. Improvement in working conditions

  4. All of above

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

The workers' revolts in St. Petersburg, particularly during the 1905 revolution, were driven by poor working conditions, low pay, and long working hours.

Multiple choice notice writing english

Identify a suitable notice headline for the following:
All employees at your company have been asked to bring their salary slips of the previous month to the office. A notice regarding the same has been put up at the office entrance.

  1. salary slips required

  2. All employees must bring their salary slips

  3. Salary Slips Required

  4. Bring your salary slip!
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The heading of the notice should be short, eye-catching and should abundantly clear the purpose of the notice.
The correct answer is Option C. This heading clearly suggests that the notice is issued to inform that the salary slips of the employees are required by the company.
Option A is incorrect as the heading always starts with a capital letter.
Option B is incorrect as there is too much information in the heading. The details should be included in the body of the notice.
Option D is incorrect as the language used in the heading is very informal.

Multiple choice elements of accounts journal meaning and classification of business transactions develop the understanding of recording of transactions in journal illustrations on journal entries

Wages paid to Mohan for erecting a machine should be debited to ___________.

  1. Wages A/c

  2. Machine A/c

  3. Mohans A/c

  4. Cash A/c
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'Wages paid' for the 'installation of machinery' should be debited to machinery account. 

Explanation: It is the amount incurred for buying and installing the machine. The 'machinery account' is debited since the machine has to be put to use.

Multiple choice book keeping and accountancy reserve and fund kinds of reserves secret reserve reserves

____________ is created to provide for claims of the workers due to accident, etc.

  1. General Reserve

  2. Worksmen Compensation Fund

  3. Investment Fund

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

Workmen Compensation is a type of insurance policy that safeguards an employee against any injury or death during the job time. The total cost of medical treatment and low wages are covered under Workmen Compensation Insurance Policy, in case the injury is caused during or due to employment. Workmen Compensation Fund is mandatory under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 in India.

Multiple choice great depression between the two world wars - the russian revolution and the great depression history russian revolution the russian revolution

National Industrial Recovery Act and the Wagner Act dealt with the issue of ________.

  1. The government's right to set price controls

  2. Employers' rights to exclude women from their workforce

  3. Workers' rights to organize unions

  4. States' rights to regulate interstate trade

  5. Corporations' rights to cooperate in setting industrywide standards
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Workers' rights to organize unions.

Multiple choice great depression between the two world wars - the russian revolution and the great depression history russian revolution the russian revolution

Why the Sit-down strikes proved to be a successful strategy for some unions in the 1930s?

  1. They were enthusiastically supported by the Roosevelt administration

  2. They prevented damage to company property

  3. They prevented the factory owners from carrying on production with strikebreakers

  4. They tended to gain public sympathy

  5. They were protected by federal legislation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

They prevented the factory owners from carrying on production with strikebreakers.

Multiple choice great depression between the two world wars - the russian revolution and the great depression history russian revolution the russian revolution

Which of the following best describes the differences that existed between the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s?

  1. The AFL had a huge membership, while the CIO never developed a mass following.

  2. The AFL had its strength east of the Mississippi River, while the CIO was strongest west of the Mississippi.

  3. The AFL was more cautious in its approach to conflicts with management, while the CIO was willing to use more militant tactics, such as the sit-down strike.

  4. The AFL was actually a coalition of "company unions," organized by management to placate worker resentment, while the CIO was composed of actual worker organizations.

  5. The AFL was dominated by Communist Party members, while the CIO, fearing government reprisals, excluded Communists from leadership positions.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The AFL was more cautious in its approach to conflicts with management, while the CIO was willing to use more militant tactics, such as the sit-down strike.

Multiple choice civics our family family values family values and its importance family, their types and inheritance

What does the word Vegar' mean?

  1. Practice where the worker is forced to render service to the 'master' free ofcharge

  2. Claims of persons recognised by society and sanctioned by law

  3. Selling and buying of human beings

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

Vegar (likely a typo for begar) refers to the historical practice of forced labor where workers are compelled to serve masters without payment. This was a common exploitative practice in feudal agricultural systems.