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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

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Explain the retirements that can be done through Retirements workbench

  1. A. Full Retirement

  2. B. Partial Retirement

  3. C. Reinstate retirement

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

The Retirements workbench in asset management systems supports multiple retirement types: Full Retirement (complete disposal of asset), Partial Retirement (retiring a portion of cost or quantity), and Reinstate Retirement (undoing a prior retirement). All three operations are available through this workbench.

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

Many workers prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing, they are unmindful of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.

  1. Many workers prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing, they are unmindful of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.

  2. Many workers who prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing are unaware of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.

  3. Many workers who prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing are unaware of both the loss of creativity as well as the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.

  4. Many workers who prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing since they are unaware of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded at the end of the contract.

  5. Many workers prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing; but these workers are unmindful of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; the option removes the coma error and converts the independent clause into a subordinate clause without introducing a new error.

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.

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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
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
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
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.