Course Title: Labour Law-II

L T

Course Code:
4

P/ SW/F TOTAL
S
W
CREDI
T
UNITS
4

Credit Units: 4
Course Objectives:
Promote and realize standards and fundamental principles and right at work.
This paper focuses on wage policies, compensation for accidents caused during the
course of employment and working conditions of employees.

Main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities,
enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue on work-related issues.

Enhance the coverage and effectiveness of social protection for all.

Prerequisites:
The students should have the knowledge of the Indian Constitution as labour is a subject in the
concurrent list of the Indian Constitution.
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course students will be able to:
Know the standards that have emerged from the United Nations. The laws cover the right to
work of ones choice, right against discrimination, prohibition of child labour, fair and humane
conditions of work, social security, protection of wages, redress of grievances, right to organise
and form trade unions, collective bargaining and participation in management
Know the various welfare programmes and policies of the government
launched and
implemented for the welfare of labour class in terms of health,
education, employment,
housing, social security and other incidental benefits

It serves as an important vehicle for student who opts for a corporate career because they can
achieve harmonious industrial relations based on workplace democracy

Course Contents/Syllabus:
Module I: Minimum Wages Act, 1948
Concept of Labour Welfare, Classification and Importance, Labour welfare activities , Concept
of minimum wage, fair wage, living wage and need based minimum wage, Constitutional
validity of the Minimum wages Act, 1948, Procedure for fixation and revision of minimum
wages, Fixation of minimum rates of wage by time rate or by piece rate, Procedure for hearing
and deciding claims.
Module II: Payment of Wages Act, 1936
Object, scope and application of the Act, Definition of wage, Responsibility for payment of
wages, Fixation of wage period, Time of payment of wage, Deductions which may be made
from wages, Maximum amount of deduction.
Module III: Employees Compensation Act, 1923
Definition of dependant, workman, partial disablement and total disablement, Employers
liability for compensation : Scope of arising out of and in the course of employment, Doctrine
of notional extension, When employer is not liable, Employers Liability when contract or is
engaged, Amount of compensation, Distribution of Compensation, Procedure in proceedings
before Commissioner, Appeals.
Module IV: Factories Act, 1948 & Social Security
Concept of factory, manufacturing process worker and occupier : General duties of
occupier, Measures to be taken in factories for health, safety and welfare of workers, Working
hours of adults, Employment of young person and children , Annual leave with wages,
Additional provisions regulating employment of women in factory, Social Security of Workmen
; Concept and scope of social security : Origin of Social Security in India, bonus & gratuity ,
Claim and Adjudication of Disputes under Employees State Insurance Act. 1948.

Pedagogy for Course Delivery:

The course will be delivered through a combination of theoretical and case study approach. All
the leading cases as well as current cases shall be discussed to clear queries & doubts and to
make concepts more clear.

Lab/ Practical details, if applicable: NA

List of Experiments: NA
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Assessment/ Examination Scheme:
Theory L/T (%)

Lab/Practical/Studio (%)

30%

NA

Theory Assessment (L&T):

Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment

Components (Drop
down)

End T
Examin

Mid-Term
Exam

Project

Viva

Attendance

10%

10%

5%

5%

Weightage (%)

Text & References :

Text:
The Constitution of India 1950.
O.P. Malhotra,: The Law of Industrial Disputes.

Indian Law Institute: Labour Law and Labour Relations.

PK Padhi: Labour & Industrial Laws.

S.C. Srivastava: Industrial Relation and Labour Law.

SM Chaturvedi: Labour & Industrial Laws.

RK Sabharwal: Job Security of Industrial Workers.

70%

VG Goswami: Labour & Industrial Laws.

SN Mishra: Labour & Industrial Laws.

Meenu Paul: Labour & Industrial Laws.

BD Singh: Industrial Relations & Labour Laws.

Kharbanda: Payment of Wages Act.

The Minimum Wages Act 1948.
The Payment of Wages Act 1936.
The Factories Act, 1948.
The Employees State Insurance Act, 1948.
The Employees Compensation Act 1923.

References:
Indian Labour Year Book, Govt. of India.

Report of the Planning Commission of India, Govt. of India.

Reports of the Ministry of Labour & Employment, the Government of India.