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Which of the following is/are correct statements concerning the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947? Industrial dispute means any dispute or difference between employers and employers, or between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or with the conditions of labor, of any person. Unfair Labour Practices are defined under the Second Schedule. It provides that an employer who intends to close down an industrial establishment shall obtain prior permission at least 60 days before the date on which he intends to close down the industrial establishment, giving the reason thereof.

Which of the following is/are correct statements concerning the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947? Industrial dispute means any dispute or difference between employers and employers, or between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or with the conditions of labor, of any person. Unfair Labour Practices are defined under the Second Schedule. It provides that an employer who intends to close down an industrial establishment shall obtain prior permission at least 60 days before the date on which he intends to close down the industrial establishment, giving the reason thereof. Correct Answer 1 only

The correct answer is 1 only.

Key Points

  • The Industrial Dispute Act, 1947 was enacted to secure industrial peace and harmony by providing machinery and procedure for the investigation and settlement of disputes via peaceful negotiations. 
    • It deals with the retrenchment process of the employee's, procedure for layoffs, procedure, and rules for strikes and lockouts of the company.  Hence, Statement 1 is correct.
  • Section 2(k) of the Industrial Dispute Act defines an industrial dispute as to any dispute or difference between employers and employers, or between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or with the conditions of labor, of any person.
  • It provides that an employer who intends to close down an industrial establishment shall obtain prior permission at least 90 days before the date on which he intends to close down the industrial establishment, giving the reason thereof. Hence, Statement 3 is incorrect.
  • Unfair Labour Practices are defined under the Fifth Schedule. Hence, Statement 2 is incorrect.
  • The act provides elaborate and effective machinery for the investigation and amicable settlement of industrial disputes by setting up the various authorities.
    1. Works Committee;
    2. Conciliation Officer;
    3. Conciliation Board;
    4. Court of Enquiry;
    5. Labour Court;
    6. Industrial Tribunal;
    7. National Tribunal;
    8. Arbitrators;
    9. Grievances Settlement Authority.
  • The Works Committee consists of both employers as well as workmen to secure and preserve good relations between them and to resolve any material difference of opinion in respect to such matters.
  • It also provides penalties for illegal strikes and lockouts and unfair labor practices and provisions regarding layoff and retrenchment. 

Related Questions

Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The Inter-state Migrant Workmen Act, 1979 is applicable in any establishment in which five or more inter-state migrant workmen are employed.
2. In exercise of the powers conferred by section 35 of the Inter-state Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, the Central Government made the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditionsof Service) rules.
3. An inter-state migrant workman shall be equal to the wages fixed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.
4. The principal officer issue a certificate of registration in Form III after the registration of establishment.
Which of the following statements are not true in relation to employment of contract labour in any establishment?
1. Supreme Court can abolish contract labour system in any establishment.
2. High Court can abolish contract labour and prohibit the principal employer from engaging contract labour where the government has not abolished the same.
3. An appropriate government and not the court can prohibit the employment of contract labour as per the provisions of law.
4. Neither the court nor the appropriate government can abolish the contract labour in any establishment.
Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The Societies Registration Act, 1860 shall not apply to any registered Trade Union, and the registration of any such Trade Union under any such Act shall be void.
2. Trade Unions may be temporary or permanent.
3. Workmen means all persons employed in trade or industry whether or not in the employment of the employer with whom the trade dispute arises.
4. Every registered Trade Union shall be a body corporate by the name under which it is registered, and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire and hold both movable and immovable property and to contract, and shall by the said name sue and be sued.
Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The employer needs to maintain a register of the employees working under him. This register needs to be preserved for a period of two years after the date of the last entry made therein.
2. In case of a person who is working in any railway factory or industrial or other establishment upon or in which more than one thousand persons are employed, the wages need to be paid by tenth of that month.
3. In case of a person who is working in any railway factory or industrial or other establishment upon or in which less than one thousand persons are employed, the wages need to be paid by third of that month.
4. In case, an employer terminates an employee, the wages earned by him must be paid before the expiry of the second working day from the day on which his employment is terminated.
Which of the following statements about the definition of 'Trade Union' as given in the Trade Unions Act, 1926 is not true?
1. A trade union is any combination, whether temporary or permanent.
2. It regulates the relations between workmen and employer.
3. It does not regulate the relations between workmen and workmen.
4. It regulates relations between employers and employers.
Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. Every contractor needs to furnish to the specified authorities the particulars regarding recruiting and employment of migrant work men in Form X.
2. The wages of every migrant workman in an establishment by a contractor where less than 1000 workmen are employed has to be paid before seventh and in other cases before tenth every month.
3. No wage period shall extend one month.
4. If the employment of any migrant workman is terminated by or on behalf of the contractor, the wages earned by the migrant workman shall be paid before the expiry the second working day from the day on which his employment is terminated.
Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. In every establishment where 40 or more workmen are employed as migrant workmen and in which employment of migrant workmen is likely to continue for three months or more, there should be two rooms to be used as creche for children under the age of six years.
2. Every contractor needs to provide atleast one first-aid box for one hundred and fifty workmen.
3. The migrant worker will be entitled to the lesser number of holidays, hours of work including extra wages for overtime work done and other conditions of service as the regular workers.
4. There should be atleast one latrine for every 25 females and 25 males.
Consider the following for the definition of principal employer under Inter-state Workmen Regulation Act, 1979.
1. It is the head of that office or department in any department of the government.
2. In a factory, the owner or occupier of the factory and where a person has been named as the manager of the factory under the Factories Act, 1948.
3. In a mine, the owner or agent of the mine and where a person has been named as the manager of the mine.
4. In any other establishment, any person responsible for the supervision and control of the establishment.
Consider the following statements: 1. Matters concerning Trade Unions, industrial and labour disputes fall within the purview of the Concurrent List. 2. The subject of the welfare of labour including conditions of work, provident fund, workmen's compensation and maternity benefits are included in the State list. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Which of the following statements are true/ false?
1. Every employer shall be bound to pay to every employee in respect of the accounting year commencing on any day in the year 1979 and in respect of every subsequent accounting year, a minimum bonus which shall be 9.33% of the salary or wages earned by the employee during the accounting year or one hundred rupees, whichever is higher, whether or not the employer has any allocable surplus in the accounting year.
2. Bonus will be paid in cash to the employees.
3. If the allocable surplus exceeds the amount of minimum bonus payable to the employees, the employer is bound to pay to every employee in respect of that accounting year bonus which shall be an amount in proportion to the salary or wages earned by the employee during the accounting year subject to a maximum of 10% of such salary or wage.
4. Bonus needs to be paid within a period of eight months from the close of the accounting year.