LABOUR LAWS

Paper Code: 
BSG 616
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

COURSE OUTCOMES (COs):

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

CO 232: Analyse the important definitions and provisions regarding health, safety, welfare and working hours of workers under the The Factories Act, 1948

CO 233: Analyse and infer the salient definitions and  provisions with respect to fixing and revising Minimum Wages as per The Minimum Wages Act, 1948

CO 234:Evaluate the important schemes and  provisions under The Employee Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952

CO 235:Analyse the important definitions and provisions of eligibility, calculation and forfeiture of gratuity as under Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972

CO 236: Infer the definitions and provisions of benefits under Employee State Insurance Act, 1948

 

Approach in teaching

Interactive Lectures

Group Discussions

Assignments

PPT Presentations

 

Learning activities for the students:

Case studies, Role plays, Student presentations.

 

Class Test

Quiz

Assignments

Observation

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Factories Act, 1948:
 
• Objective, Scope
• Definitions (Adult, Child, Adolescent, Young Person, Day, Week, Power, Factory, manufacturing process, hazardous process
• Provisions relating to Approval, Licensing & Registration of Factories. 
• Health Measures, Safety Measures, Welfare Measures
• Provisions relating to Working Hours
 
9.00
Unit II: 
Minimum Wages Act, 1948:
 
• Objective, Scope
• Definitions (Appropriate Government, Employee, Employer, Wages)
• Fixation and Revision of Minimum Wages – Manner, Procedure, Time Duratio
9.00
Unit III: 
The Employee Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952:.
 
• Objective, Scope
• Definitions (Appropriate Government, Basic Wages)
• Schemes under the Act –Employees’ Provident Fund Schemes, 1952;Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 and Employees’ Deposit-Linked Insurance Scheme, 1976
 
9.00
Unit IV: 
Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972:
 
• Objective, Scope
• Definitions (Appropriate Government, Employee, Continuous Service, Retirement, Superannuation, Wages, Family) 
• Calculation of Gratuity
• Payment of gratuity
• Forfeiture of gratuity.
9.00
Unit V: 
Employee State Insurance Act, 1948:
 
• Objective, Scope 
• Definitions (Appropriate Government, Confinement, Dependent, Employment Injury, Employee, Family, Sickness, Temporary Disablement, Permanent Partial Disablement, Permanent Total Disablement, Wages)
• ESI Corporation – Constitution, Power and Duties
• Wings of the Corporation - Standing Committee and Medical Benefit Council; 
• Contributions.
 
Essential Readings: 
• Awasthi, S.K., Labour Laws, Delhi Law House, New Delhi
• Mamoria, C.B., Mamoria, Satish and Gankar, S.V., Dynamics of Industrial Relations, Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai, 2005, 17th ed.
 
References: 
 
• Kataria, O.P., Labour Law, Delhi Law House, New Delhi
• Nabhi, Labour Laws One should know, Delhi Law House, New Delhi
• Monappa, Arun, Industrial Relations, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Ltd., New Delhi
 
e-RESOURCES
 
JOURNALS
• OPUS: Annual HR Journal
• Yojana
• Indian Journal of Industrial Relations
 
 
Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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