Industrial Relations and Labour Laws
Subject Overview
Industrial Relations and Labour Laws covers how workers, employers, and unions interact under the law — the final-semester paper that connects HR concepts to their legal framework. You'll cover the concept of industrial relations and trade unions, collective bargaining and grievance management, industrial conflicts (strikes, lockouts) and workers' participation in management, and close with an overview of key labour legislation — the Industrial Relations Code 2019, Factories Act, Payment of Wages Act, ESI Act, and more. This is a 6-credit core paper across 4 units, directly building on Human Resource Management from Semester 3.
Unit-wise Syllabus
4 units — click WhatsApp below to get the full notes for each
Unit 1: Industrial relations & trade unions
Concept, definition and importance of industrial relations, factors affecting IR, approaches to IR, impact of technology, nature of trade unions, the trade union movement in India, Trade Unions Act 1926, quality circles
Unit 2: Collective bargaining & grievance management
Concept and prerequisites of collective bargaining, the bargaining process and principles, labour-management cooperation in India, causes and effects of grievance, negotiation and collective settlements, grievance redressal procedure
Unit 3: Industrial conflicts & workers' participation
Meaning, causes and types of industrial conflict, strikes and lockouts, machinery for resolving industrial disputes, concept and growth of workers' participation in management, types of workers' participation
Unit 4: Labour legislation
Emergence and objectives of labour laws, Industrial Relations Code 2019, overview of the Factories Act, Industrial Disputes Act, Payment of Wages Act, Payment of Bonus Act, ESI Act, Payment of Gratuity Act, Minimum Wages Act, PF Act, Workmen's Compensation Act