Strategic Industrial Relations and Labour Laws

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. I. Industrial relations: 1. Industrial relations: concept, objectives and factors for good industrial relations. 2. Strategies for developing employment relationship. 3. Causes of industrial disputes and machinery for prevention and settlement of industrial disputes. 4. Trade unions and their functions. 5. Profile of new industrial labour force in India and emerging employer-employee relations in new economy. 6. Trade union strategies in the wake of declining trends in unionism. 7. Strategies in industrial relations in India. 8. Employee relations strategy. 9. Line manager\'s role in building industrial relations at workplace. 10. Collective bargaining. 11. Collective bargaining strategies. 12. Negotiation process. 13. Strategies for developing a climate of trust. 14. Worker\'s participation in management: industrial democracy. 15. Managing grievances. 16. Managing discipline. 17. Disciplinary action. 18. Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS). 19. Social security. 20. Labour welfare. 21. Wage policy. 22. International Labour Organisation (ILO). 23. Theoretical framework of industrial relations. II. Labour Laws: 24. Labour laws: perspectives. 25. The Trade Union Act, 1926. 26. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. 27. The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946. 28. The Factories Act, 1948. 29. The Shops and Establishment Act, 1954. 30. The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970. 31. The Minimum Wages Act, 1948. 32. The Payment of Wages Act, 1936. 33. The Equal Remuneration Act, 1978. 34. The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965. 35. The Workmen\'s Compensation Act, 1923. 36. The Employee\'s State Insurance Act, 1948. 37. The Employee\'s Provident Fund, Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 and The Employee\'s Pension Scheme, 1995. 38. The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. 39. The Maternity Benefit Act, 1948. 40. The Apprentices Act, 1961. III. Futuristic issues in industrial relations: 41. Redesigning industrial relations: an approach. 42. Job flexibility. 43. Employee engagement is crucial for business success. 44. Business process outsourcing. 45. Aligning employee expectations with change in strategy. 46. Impact of technological change and industrial relations. 47. Impact of globalisation on industrial relations. IV. Recommendations and guidelines: 48. Important recommendations of the National Commission on Labour, 2002, Ministry of Labour, Government of India. 49. Guarding against Sexual Harassment in the Work Place (SH). 50. Social security to unemployed Workers by ESIC. 51. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. Annexures. Index.

"Industrial Relations Policy in India has evolved over a period of five decades through a process of tripartite consultations and in the light of then prevailing socio-economic and political conditions and circumstances. Repeated attempts made by the Government to evolve tripartite consensus on long-term vision of labour policies and strategies, rationalizing and reforming multitude of labour laws, fine-tuning the labour policies and strategies, with the liberalized economic policy and allowing a level playing field to industrial organizations to compete with multinational enterprises have thus far not been successful.

Human resource is a very critical factor in economic development and a major source of competitive advantage. Our Industrial Relations Policy, should therefore, capitalize this advantage to create national wealth and be friendly to both--labour and business. It very comprehensively deals with multi-dimensional aspects. This book contains 51chapters divided into 4 parts. The erudite and comprehensive coverage of Parts I and II has forty chapters. Serious students of industrial relations, researchers and human resource executives will find the Sections III and IV on futuristic issues, recommendations and guidelines especially very stimulating and rewarding learning experience.

In order to help the students to learn new concepts, to understand the problems, and situations, the following new features are included: (a) Objective type questions on different laws, (b) Practical problems on laws, and (c) Case studies.

Thus, this book seeks to acquaint the readers not only with the concepts and principles but also the practices." (jacket)