Employment Policy and Labour Welfare in India


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Provides a comprehensive account of employment and labour related policies and issues in India. This book covers the following areas: demographic trends, unemployment estimates, employment policies and programmes, labour laws, social security, unorganised sector workers, agricultural workers and forced/bonded labourers, WTO and globalisation.










Labour Welfare in India


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One Hundred Years of Social Protection


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While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experiences of four middle-income countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - from 1920 to 2020, analysing if, when, and how these countries articulated a concern about social issues and social cohesion. As the first in-depth study of the ideational foundations of social protection policies and programmes in these four countries, the contributions demonstrate that the social question was articulated in an increasingly inclusive way. The contributions identify the ideas, beliefs, and visions that underpinned the movement towards inclusion and social peace as well as counteracting doctrines. Drawing on perspectives from the sociology of knowledge, grounded theory, historiography, discourse analysis, and process tracing, the volume will be of interest to scholars across political science, sociology, political economy, history, area studies, and global studies, as well as development experts and policymakers.




Indian Employment Laws


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This book addresses employment or labour laws for Human Resource Managers. The aim is to explore the labour laws related to employee, employers, labour, union, welfare, and law for women employees at workplace for an organisation. The book consists of a compilation of seven chapters and an extended list of reference cases on employment laws. The book is based on a combination of employment law and litigation cases in India. The first chapter of the book discusses the introduction to employment laws where constitution law and employment. The second chapter discusses the Laws on labour welfare and their working conditions, The Factories Act, 1948, Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, The Building and Other Constructions Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996, Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. The third chapter discusses the Law of Industrial Relations in India, Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, The Plantation Labour Act, 1951, The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946, Indian Trade Union Act, 1926. The fourth chapter discusses the Law of Wages in India, Payment of Wages Act, 1936, Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, Equal Remuneration Act, 1976, Workman’s Compensation Act, 1923. The fifth chapter discusses the Social Security Legislation in India, Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923, Equal Remuneration Act, 1976, Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, The Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008, and Apprentices Act, 1961. The sixth chapter discusses the New Labor Reform Code - 2020, Labour Reforms undertaken since 2014, Labour Codes and Freedom from the Web of Legislation, Right to Minimum Wages for everyone, Labour Code (Wage Code) - 2014 to 2019: Workers will get benefited, Social Security Code, 2020, Right of security to workers in all situations, OSH Code (Occupational, Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code) – 2020, Women empowerment through the Labour Codes, Industrial Relations (IR) Code, 2020, and Benefits of Codification. And the seventh chapter discusses the Legal Cases on Employment Laws with a list of 373 Legal Cases for Reference. I wrote this book especially for Human Resource Managers which will certainly help them to understand the various legal aspects of employee, employer, and employment law to reduce the litigation from employees and enhance the productivity and efficiency of performance of employees in the organisations. This book and the cases discussed can be very useful for advocates and lawyers handling labour/service matters.










Labour Welfare Laws and Working Conditions in India


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Labour legislation, social security legislation, texts and comments, tobacco industry, India - working conditions, conditions of employment, judicial decisions. Bibliography.