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Industrial Relations
Compensatory off provision is available only for exempted workers considering the urgent and criticality of the activity and not for all cases in general as provided in respective state factories Rules. If the compensatory off is not in line with these provisions, then such practice will be illegal...
State regulates the industrial relations through statutory provisions. These provisions keep evolving with the need and exigencies from time to time. Author discusses some salient provisions on the role of the State on regulation of industrial relations in India from time to time.
Hurdles of Sec. 9-A and Chapter V-B of I.D. Act and facing challenges in business due to open global market conditions and finding no support from Govt. in making suitable changes in Industrial Disputes Act, lead the Employers to accelerate the move towards "Collaborative Culture" and in fact, the...
The real crux of engagement, however, lies in drawing blue collar actors into business realities through education in the space of accounting, finance and operational realities. This can be done in a stage-appropriate manner by using interventions like TPM, TQM and so on - but these are the real...
The amendments to section 65 will provide the limit of quarterly overtime hours to 144 hours instead of the current 75 hours and the condition of consent from workers for overtime work is specifically added.
Employer should take action and respond to the request of the union within the granted time about reconising protected wrmen. It is settled law that workmen, who are undesirable or dismissed on the ground of gross/major misconduct or facing trial for minor or major criminal offences can always be...
As the country recovers from the pandemic's devastating effects, a new landscape has emerged for employee relations and collective bargaining in the Indian industrial sector. Not only this there is another side to the coin …
One big reason for IR skills being at the brink of extinction has been the complex labour regime and the implementing agencies. Due to absence of fixed principles of IR management, lot of IR knowledge and skills is confined to certain old hats in the organisation.
Mindset of many organisations that HR professionals have no need for knowledge of Industrial Relations in today's world is a fallacy that has had a cascading effect. Rather in today's tech world model this relationship is going to be more complex having fully loaded with knowledge and information.