The law relating to labour and employment in India is primarily known under the broad category of "Industrial Law".
Industrialization is considered to be one of the key engines to support the economic growth of any country. The commence of industry and its growth is not a venture of the employer alone; yet it involves the hard work and tough grind of each and every stakeholder of the industry including the labourers, supervisors, managers and entrepreneurs. With the initiation of the concept of welfare state in the early realm of independence of our country, various legislative efforts have made their first move in the direction of welfare, equitable rights, social justice, social equity and equitable participation of the labour as a stakeholder at parity. A plethora of labour laws have been established to ensure elevated health, safety, and welfare of workers; to protect workers against oppressive terms as individual worker is economically weak and has little bargaining power; to encourage and facilitate the workers in the organization; to deal with industrial disputes; to enforce social insurance and labour welfare schemes and alike. Labour laws are the one dealing with employment laws in any organization ? whether it is a manufacturing organization or trading organization or shops and establishment. The labour laws address the various administrative rulings (such as employment standing orders) and procedure to be followed, compliance to be made and it address the legal rights of, and restrictions on, working people and their organizations. By and large the labour law covers the industrial relations, certification of unions, labour management relations, collective bargaining and unfair labour practices and very importantly the workplace health and safety with good environmental conditions. Further the labour laws also focus on employment standards, including general holidays, annual leave, working hours, unfair dismissals, minimum wage, layoff procedures and severance pay and many other issues related to employer and employee and the various compliance requirements. Read Full Notification
