1.1 Labour laws=made by Government, they deal with a worker’s well being in the office: for example
working hours, hiring and firing, maternity leave, pension, union formation etc.
1.2 Industrial relation = interactions between employers (businessmen/bosses), employees (workers)
and the government (which makes the laws for them)
Constitutional Provisions
1. FR
1.1 Art 15 = discrimination on religion, race,caste, sex and place of birth.
1.2 Art 16 = Equal opportunity in Government jobs
1.3 Art 19 = The right to form union.But it does not carry with it the right to achieve every object. Thus
the trade unions have no fundamental to right strike. (it is only a legal right under the industrial
dispute Act)
1.4 Art 21 = right to ‘live’ is not merely confined to physical existence but it includes within its ambit the
right to live with human dignity.
1.5 Art 23 = prohibits ‘bonded / forced labour’
1.6 Art 24 = Child Labour
1.7 Art 33 = hose working in armed forces etc cannot enjoy all the fundamental rights.
2. DPSP
2.1 Art 39 = Free legal aid, health of workers
2.2 Art 41 = Social security during unemployment.
2.3 Art 42 = humane conditions of work + Maternity Relief.
3. Concurrent List
3.1 Regulation of labour and safety in mines and oil fields
3.2 Trade Unions; industrial and labour disputes.
3.3 Industrial disputes concerning Union employees
3.4 Social Security and insurance, employment and unemployment
3.5 Union agencies and institutions for "Vocational ...training..."
3.6 Welfare of labour including conditions of work, provident funds, employers "invalidity and old age
pension and maternity
Working Hours, Condition of Service & Employment
1. 1948 = Factories Act
2. 1951 = Plantation Act
3. 1952 = Mines Act
4. 1955 = Working Journalists & other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service & Misc.) Act