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Subject Code Subject Name (Theory course) Category L T P C
BA19P22 Employee Relations And Labour Laws FE 3 0 0 3

Objectives:
Organisational efficiency and performance are interlinked with Industrial Relations in a business enterprise.
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This course provides the conceptual and practical aspects of IR and labour welfare.

UNIT-I Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations: Meaning, evolution, Workers participation, Industrial 9
Worker, Role of HR in IR, Trends in IR, Technology change and Industrial Relations.

UNIT-II Industrial Conflict: Meaning, trends and Resolution Dispute resolution and Industrial harmony – 9
Act 1947 (Industrial dispute Act): Industrial Dispute, Strike, Lockout, Retrenchment, Dispute
Resolution Machinery : Negotiation, Voluntary settlement, Mediation, Conciliation.

UNIT-III Trade Unions, Collective Bargaining, Employee Grievance: Evolution and Growth of Trade 9
unions, Rights and Responsibilities and Management of Unions- Concept, Importance,
negotiation process, Types of Contracts, Collective bargaining agreements, Prerequisites and
Trends - Grievance- Definition, Meaning, Nature and Causes, and procedure.

UNIT-IV Legal Systems For Industrial Relations: Maternity Benefits Act, 1961, Equal Remuneration 9
Act, 1976-The sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, Redressal)
Act 2013- Child Labour (Prohibition ®ulation) Act, Workmen Compensation Act, 1923 -
Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 - Employees Provident Fund and Misc. Provision Act, 1952
- Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.

UNIT-V Contemporary Issues In Industrial Relations: Employee Discipline: Definition – Causes of 9
indiscipline – Code of discipline – Disciplinary procedure – Code of conduct- Industrial Relations
in the emerging scenario- The Future Trends.

Total Contact Hours : 45

Course Outcomes:
 To explore contemporary knowledge and gain a conceptual understanding of industrial relations.
Students will know how to resolve industrial relations and human relations problems and promote welfare of
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industrial labour.
 To develop an insight of the importance of collective bargaining, negotiation in industrial relations.
 To gain the insight on role of government in industrial peace.
 The students will understand about the role of the labour laws and its application in organisation.

Text Book(s) :
Mamoria C.B. and SathishMamoria, Dynamics of Industrial Relations, Himalaya Publishing House, New Delhi,
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2007.
ArunMonappa, RanjeetNambudiri, PatturajaSelvaraj. Industrial relations &Labour Laws. Tata McGraw Hill.
2
2012.

Reference Books(s) / Web links:
1 RatnaSen, Industrial Relations in India, Shifting Paradigms, Macmillan India Ltd., New Delhi, 2007.
2 C.S.VenkataRatnam, Globalisation and Labour Management Relations, Response Books, 2007.
3 Srivastava, Industrial Relations and Labour laws, Vikas, 2007.
4 P.N.Singh, Neeraj Kumar. Employee relations Management. Pearson. 2011.

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