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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

A strike means

  1. mere cessation of work

  2. cessation of work under common understanding

  3. cessation of work coupled with gherao of management

  4. slowing down the production

  5. All of above

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

(3) A refusal to work, organised by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer. In other words, a strike means cessation of work coupled with gherao of management.

Multiple choice

Assertion (A): Strike is the stoppage of work by a body of persons employed in any service, acting in combination. Reason (R): Combined work is service oriented.

  1. Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is correct explanation of (A).

  2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not correct explanation of (A).

  3. Both (A) and (R) are false.

  4. (A) is true, but (R) is false.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Strike is one of the oldest and the most effective weapons of labour in its struggle, with capital for securing economic justice. The basic strength of a strike lies in the labour’s privilege to quit work and thus, brings a forced readjustment to the conditions of employment. Combined work can never be taken as service oriented.

Multiple choice

A premises including precincts thereof is a ‘factory’ within the meaning of the Factories Act, 1948 wherein a manufacturing process is being carried on without the aid of power and where the number of workers working is

  1. 10 or more

  2. 20 or more

  3. 15 or more

  4. 50 or more
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(4) A premises including precincts thereof is a ‘factory’ within the meaning of the Factories Act, 1948 wherein a manufacturing process is being carried on without the aid of power and where the number of workers working is 50 or more.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the nearest meaning to the word in bold.

Illegal immigrants have become a source of cheap labour for exploitative employers.

  1. those who facilitate illegal immigration

  2. those who have no morals

  3. those who take benefit of others

  4. those who buy and sell illegal things
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Exploitative employers are those who take unfair advantage of others, particularly vulnerable workers like illegal immigrants, by paying low wages and providing poor working conditions. The word refers to utilizing someone or something selfishly for profit.

Multiple choice

“Works Committee under the Industrial Disputes Act should be substituted by an ‘Industrial Relations Committee’ to promote in-house dispute settlement.” This recommendation was made by

  1. Royal Commission on Labour

  2. National Commission on Labour, 1969

  3. National Commission on Labour, 2002

  4. National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This recommendation was made by National Commission on Labour, 2002.

Multiple choice

Who is a protected workman under the Industrial Disputes Act? Answer using the codes given below.

  1. A workman who is a member of a registered Trade Union
  2. Recognised by the Registrar of the Trade Union as protected workman
  3. A workman who is a member of the Executive or other office bearer of a registered Trade Union connected with the establishment
  4. Recognised as protected workman under the rules applicable to the establishment

  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 4

  3. 3 and 4

  4. 1 and 3
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A workman who is a member of the Executive or other office bearer of a registered Trade Union connected with the establishment and recognised as protected workman under the rules applicable to the establishment is protected workman under the Industrial Disputes Act.

Multiple choice

Directions: The statement below is followed by two arguments numbered I and II. You have to decide which of the given arguments is/are ‘strong'.

Statement: Uber cab drivers should be made employees. Arguments: I. No, as Uber sets drivers up as contractors, so that they could have control over where and when they work. II. Yes, because this will make them more disciplined.

  1. Only I is strong.

  2. Only II is strong.

  3. Both I and II are strong.

  4. Neither I nor II is strong.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This argument is strong as the fundamental reason behind the company is providing control to the driver. This is the correct answer as this is the only strong argument.

Multiple choice

According to Gandhiji, an employer should be

  1. strictly controlled by the state

  2. the trustee of the interest of his employees

  3. forced to share equally his profit with the employees

  4. allowed to exploit his employees
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

According to Gandhiji, an employer should be the trustee of the interest of his employees.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best out of the available options to fill the blank against the question.

The mill management declared lock out to minimize its losses arising out of the go slow activities of the workmen and also ___________a lesson that they would not easily forget.

  1. for teaching the unions

  2. to teach the unions

  3. teaching the unions

  4. for the unions to learn

  5. in order to teach the unions
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence uses the structure 'to X and also to Y' for parallel construction. 'To minimize' appears earlier, so 'to teach' maintains this parallel. 'For teaching' or 'teaching' would break the parallel structure established in the sentence.

Multiple choice

Consider the following statements:

Human diseconomies from increasing work specialization beyond a limit surface in the form of

  1. stress

  2. poor quality of output

  3. increased absenteeism

  4. high turnover from the organization

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. 1,2,3 and 4

  2. Only 1 and 4

  3. Only 2 and 3

  4. Only 1
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Excessive work specialization creates human diseconomies. Workers experience stress from repetitive, monotonous tasks (1). Quality suffers because disengaged workers make errors and take less pride (2). Absenteeism increases as workers avoid dissatisfying tasks (3). High turnover results as workers leave for more fulfilling jobs (4). All four are documented consequences.

Multiple choice

X and Y agree to work together as carpenters but X shall receive all profit and shall pay wages to Y. The relation between X and Y is that of

  1. partners

  2. carpenters

  3. labourers

  4. master-servant
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The relationship is master-servant, not partnership, because there is no mutual agency. Y works for wages and doesn't share profits or risks. In partnership, each partner must act as agent of others and share profits/losses, which is absent here.