Annexure ‘CD – 01’
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FORMAT FOR COURSE CURRICULUM
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Course Title: Labour Law II UNITS
3 0 0 2 1 4
Credit Units: 4
Course Level: UG Course Code: LAW 321
Course Objectives: Promote and realize standards and fundamental principles at right of work place
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 security for all.
Pre-requisites: The students should have the knowledge of the Indian Constitution.
Course Contents/Syllabus:
Weightage (%)
Module I: Minimum Wages Act, 1948 20%
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 20%
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
The equal remuneration laws.
Module III: Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 20%
Definition of dependent, workman, partial disablement and total disablement
Employer’s liability for compensation : Scope of arising out of and in the course of employment
Doctrine of notional extension
When employer is not liable
Employer’s 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 20%
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 Employee’s State Insurance Act. 1948.
Module V-Regulatory and Control Mechanism under Labour Law 20%
The regulatory authorities and procedure for redressal of claims/ grievances along with latest amendments
under
i. The Minimum Wages Act
ii. The Payment of Wages Act
iii. The Factories Act
iv. The Employees Compensation Act.
Recent changes, developments and amendments in Labour Law.
Course Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course students will be able to:
1. Know the standards that have emerged from the United Nations.
2. The laws cover the right to work of one’s choice, right against discrimination, prohibition of child labour, fair and humane conditions of work, social
security, protection of wages, redress of grievances.
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.
PSDA
Judgment Analysis of Labor Law (PSDA 1)
Analysis of various welfare schemes under Labor Law (PSDA 2)
Visit to Labour Court, Industrial Tribunal and authorities under the Acts (PSDA 3)
Document Preparation for Claim of Beneficiary (PSDA 4)
Interactions with workmen regarding conditions pertaining to health, safety and welfare at their work-place (PSDA 5)
Lab/Practical details, if applicable:
List of Experiments:
NA
Assessment/ Examination Scheme:
Theory L/T (%) Lab/Practical/Studio (%)
100% NA
Theory Assessment (L&T):
Components (Drop Class Test PSDAs PSDAs PSDAs Attendance End-term Examination
down) Project Proposals Reports Viva
Weightage (%) 10% 5% 10% 10% 5% 60%
Lab/ Practical/ Studio Assessment:
Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment End Term Examination
(____ %) (____ %)
Components (Drop down NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Weightage (%) NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
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Text Reading:
Anil Kumar, Social Security and Labour Welfare, Deep & Deep Publications, 2003
SN Mishra, Labour and Industrial Laws, 25th Edn.-2009, Central Law Publications, Allahabad.
K M Pillai, Labour and Industrial Law, 10th Edn- 2005, Allahabad Law Agency, Allahabad.
Dr. V G Goswami, Labour Industrial Laws, 8th Edn. – 2004, Central Law Agency, Allahabad.
G M Kothari, A Study of Industrial Law, 5th Edn.-2000, Wadhwa and Co., Nagpur.
S M Chaturvedi and Dr. Indrajeet Singh, Labour and Industrial Laws, 13th Edn.-2006, Central Law Agency, Allahabad.
P. Malhotra, The Law of Industrial Disputes (6th ed., 2004)
B. Pai, Labour law in India (2001)
L. Malik (Rev.), K.D. Srivastava’s Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act. 1946 (4th ed., 2000)
L. Malik’s Industrial Law (21st ed., 2008)
C. Srivastava (Rev.) Labour Law and Labour Relation : Cases and Materials (3rd ed., 2007)
D. Srivastava, Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (1995)
L. Malik, K.D. Srivastava’s Commentaries on Payment of Wages Act, 1936(5th ed., 1998)
Indian Law Institute, Cases and Materials on Labour Law and Labour Relations,
1963
PL Malik, Industrial Law, Eastern Book Company, 2013
Dr. Goswami, Labour and Industrial Law, Central Law Agency, 2011
References:
Surya Narayan Misra, An Introduction to Labour and Industrial Law, Allahabad
Law Agency, 1978
S.C. Srivastava, Industrial Relations and Labour Law, Vikas Publishing House,
New Delhi, 6th Edn., 2012
Chaturvedi, Labour and Industrial Law, Central Law Agency, 2004
S.C. Srivastava, Commentaries on the Factories Act, 1948, Universal Law
Publishing House, Delhi, 2002
H.L. Kumar, Workmen’s Compensation Act, 192, Universal Law Publishing, 2020
Any other Study Material:
Law Commission of India 62nd Report on Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923
Report of the National Commission on Labour (1969)
Report of the Second National Commission on Labour (2002)
Report of the National Commission on Labour (1969)
Report of the Second National Commission on Labour (2002)
Report of the Committee on Fair Wages (1948)
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.
List of Statutes
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.
The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
