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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

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.

Multiple choice political science women change the world social aspects of gender and women's education position of women and major social evils women empowerment

The person who is responsible for performing the domestic household work is __________________.

  1. men

  2. labourer

  3. women

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

In Patriarchal society, women are supposed to do the domestic household work where men are supposed to all work outside the home to earn money.

Multiple choice labour and its division social stratification labour sociology

The division of labour is based on ______________.

  1. Age

  2. Gender

  3. Skill

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

The division of labour is based on various factors, concerning the kind of labour required for the particular work. There are work that requires physical strength, so in order to efficiently perform the task the labour is divided according to the age and gender. Furthermore, there are variety of work that a skilled person can only perform for e.g., repairing a machine etc., in such a cases the labour is divided according tot he skills of a person regardless of his or her gender.

Multiple choice labour and its division social stratification labour sociology

The ___________ sector of work is that sector where legal provisions do not completely govern.

  1. Organised

  2. Primary

  3. Seconday

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

The unorganised sector of work is that sector of work is that sector where legal provisions do not completely govern. Unorganised sector, also known as own account enterprises, refers to all unlicensed, self-employed or unregistered economic activity such as owner manned general stores, handicrafts and handloom workers, rural traders, farmers, etc.

Multiple choice labour and its division social stratification labour sociology

Which of the following are the problem/s faced by labourers in the unorganised sectors ?

  1. No fixed time or duration of work.

  2. Minimum wage is below the mandatory pay fixed by the government.

  3. No paid leaves.

  4. All
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
In unorganized sectors, the employee has less facilities than the employee s of organised sector. Some of the problem faced by laborers in the unorganized sector are:
1) Workers working in the unorgansied sector get few wages.
2) There is no provision for over time, paid leave, holidays, leave due to sickness etc. 
3) Employment is a subject to a high degree of insecurity. 
4) Minimum wage is below the mandatory pay fixed by the government.
Multiple choice popular struggles and movements political science

The workers of Lenin Shipyard in the city of Gdansk went on a strike and demanded to ________________.

  1. Take back a dismissed woman worker

  2. Appoint a new worker

  3. Set up safety measures

  4. Take back a dismissed worker
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
On 14 August 1980, the workers of Lenin Shipyard in the city of Gdansk went on a strike. The shipyard was owned by the government. In fact all the factories in Poland were owned by the government. The strike began with a demand to take back a crane operator, a woman worker, who was unjustly dismissed from service.