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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

As per the Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988, an employer of any small establishment or very small establishment required to furnishes a Core Return in

  1. Form A

  2. Form B

  3. Form C

  4. Form D
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A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) As per the Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988, an employer of any small establishment or very small establishment required to furnishes a Core Return in Form A.

Multiple choice

Collective bargaining serves purposes

  1. regulating wages and conditions of service

  2. regulating labour management relations

  3. Both (1) and (2)

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

(3) Collective bargaining is a process in which working people, through their unions, negotiate contracts with employers to determine their terms of employment, including pay, health care, pensions and other benefits, hours, leave, job health and safety policies, ways to balance work and family and more. Employees jointly decide their priorities for bargaining.

Multiple choice

Retrenchment means

  1. voluntary retirement of workman

  2. termination of the service of a workman on the ground of continued ill-health

  3. termination by the employer of the service of a workman for any reason whatsoever

  4. termination of the service of the workman as a result of the non-renewal of the contract of employment
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Section 2 (oo) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 defines retrenchment as the termination by the employer of the service of a workman for any reason whatsoever.

Multiple choice

The term "same work or work of a similar nature” is mentioned in the

  1. Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

  2. Maternity Benefit Act, 1961

  3. Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946

  4. Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986

  5. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) The term "same work or work of a similar nature” is mentioned in the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976.

Multiple choice

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 applies to every establishment/ contractor in which _______ workmen are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months as contract labour.

  1. 10 or more

  2. 15

  3. 20 or more

  4. 25 or more
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(3) Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 applies to every establishment/ contractor in which twenty or more workmen are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months as contract labour.

Multiple choice

Unfair labour practices mean any of the practices specified in the

  1. Fourth Schedule of the Industrial Disputes Act

  2. Fifth Schedule of the Industrial Disputes Act

  3. Sixth Schedule of the Industrial Disputes Act

  4. Third Schedule of the Industrial Disputes Act
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(2) Unfair labour practices mean any of the practices specified in the Fifth Schedule of the Industrial Disputes Act.

Multiple choice

As per Payment of Wages Act, 1936, in railway factory or industrial or other establishment upon or in which less than one thousand persons are employed, wages shall be paid before the expiry of the

  1. seventh day of the month

  2. tenth day of the month

  3. third day of the month

  4. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) As per Payment of Wages Act, 1936, in railway factory or industrial or other establishment upon or in which less than one thousand persons are employed, wages shall be paid before the expiry of the seventh day of the month.

Multiple choice

Lockout is

  1. for trade reasons

  2. an act on the part of employer taken to coerce or pressurise the labour

  3. not an intentional act

  4. not concerned with industrial dispute
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B Correct answer
Explanation

(2) A lockout is generally used to enforce terms of employment upon a group of employees during a dispute. A lockout can act to force unionized workers to accept changed conditions such as lower wages.

Multiple choice

The Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 protects the interest of workers in contingencies, such as

I. sickness II. maternity III. temporary or permanent physical disablement IV. death due to employment injury, resulting in loss of wages or earning capacity

  1. I only

  2. II only

  3. I, III and IV

  4. I, II, III and IV
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D Correct answer
Explanation

(4) The Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 protects the interest of workers in contingencies like sickness, maternity, temporary or permanent physical disablement and death due to employment injury resulting in loss of wages or earning capacity.