NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR STUDY AND RESEARCH IN LAW, RANCHI
LABOUR LAWS - I
SYLLABUS (Vth Semester)
Academic Year 2022
MODULE 1
Understanding labour relations; Historical background; Industrial Jurisprudence – theories of
Blackstone, Otto Kahn-Freund and Sinzheimer; Evolution of labour laws in India;
Constitution of India and Labour welfare Part III and Part IV; Principles and need of Labour
Legislation in India; Introduction to the new labour codes.
MODULE 2
Right to Form Trade Unions vs Right to Collective Bargaining vs Right to Strike – Are they
fundamental rights?; Introduction to the IR Code; Definition and scope of ‘worker’;
Introduction to The Industrial Relations Code 2020; Preamble; Scope of the Code; Trade
Unions – Concept, History and Development, Registration, Recognition, Negotiating Union
& Negotiating Council, Right and Liabilities of Trade Unions, Adjudication of Disputes of
Trade Unions, Dissolution of Trade Unions, Annual returns; Definitions and New Concepts -
Fixed-time Employment
MODULE 3
Industrial Disputes and their Resolution; Strikes & Lock-outs; Lay-off, Retrenchment and
Closure under Chapter IX and X; Bi-partite forums – Works Committee and Grievance
Redressal Committee, Voluntary Reference of Disputes to Arbitration; Mechanism for
Resolution of Industrial Disputes – Conciliation Officers, Industrial Tribunal, National
Industrial Tribunal; Standing Orders – application, certifying officer and appellate authority;
Unfair Labour Practices – Second Schedule, Offences and Penalties
MODULE 4
The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 – Introduction;
Preamble; Scope of the Code; Registration; Duties of Employer and Employees;
Implementation Mechanism related to Occupational Safety and Health – Advisory Boards,
Inspectors-cum-facilitators, Powers of District Magistrate; Responsibility of Employer;
Welfare Provisions; Hours of Work and Annual Leave with Wages, Provisions Relating to
Women
Module 5
Contract Labour; Inter-State Migrant Workers; Audio-Visual Workers; Mines; Beedi-Cigar
Workers; Building or Other Construction Workers; Factories – Occupier, Site Appraisal
Committee, Permissible limits of Exposure of Chemicals and Toxic Substances; Plantation
Workers; Social Security Fund; Offences and Penalties
List of cases:
1. D.N. Banerjee vs PR Mukherjee, AIR 1953 SC 58
2. All India Bank Employees Association vs National Industrial Tribunal, AIR 1962 SC
171
3. Dharam Dutt vs. Union of India, AIR 2004 SC 1295
4. Raghubar v. Union of India, AIR 1962 SC 263
5. Slattery vs Naylor (1888) LR 13 AC 446 (PC)
6. K. Ramanathan v. State of T.N., (1985) 2 SCC 116
7. Star India Pvt. Ltd. v. Department of Industrial Policy, Civil Appeal Nos. 7326-7327
of 2018 (SC)
8. Bandhua Mukti Morcha v. Union of India (1984) 3 SCC 161
9. Neerja Chaudhary v. State of Madhya Pradesh (1984) 3 SCC 243
10. People’s Union for Democratic Rights vs Union of India (1982) 3 SCC 235
11. Uber BV vs Aslam [2021] UKSC 5
12. McCormick v. Fasken 2014 SCC 39 [Canada SC]
13. Hussainbhai v. Alath Factory Union (1978) 4 SCC 257
14. Balwant Rai Saluja v. Air India, Civil Appeal Nos. 10264-10266 of 2013 (SC)
15. Steel Authority of India v. National Union Water Front, Civil Appeal Nos. 6009-6010
of 2001 (SC)
16. Globe Ground India Employees v. Lufthansa German Airlines, Civil Appeal Nos.
25341-42 of 2017 (SC)
** The above list of cases is not the final list.
Statutory References
Industrial Relations Code 2020
The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020
The Trade Unions Act, 1926
The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
The Factories Act, 1948
The Plantations Labour Act, 1951
The Mines Act, 1952
The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service)
and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
The Working Journalists (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act, 1958
The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961
The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
The Cine-Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers ( Regulations of Employment) Act,
1981
The Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986
The Building and other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and
Conditions of Service) Act, 1996
Books:
“Labour and Industrial Laws” by S.N. Mishra.
“Labour and Industrial Laws” by Prof. (Dr.) V.G. Goswami
Commentaries on Factories Act, 1948 by S.C.Srivastava
