Contents:
Preface.
Industrial relations:
1. Industrial relations: concept, objectives and factors for good industrial relations.
2. Theoretical framework of industrial relations.
3. Causes of industrial disputes and machinery for prevention and settlement of industrial disputes.
4. Trade unions and their functions.
5. Collective bargaining and strategies.
6. Building effective industrial relations at the factory or workplace level.
7. Handling strike situation.
8. Workers' participation in management: industrial democracy.
9. Managing discipline.
10. Disciplinary action.
11. Managing grievances.
12. Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) and pink slips.
13. Social security.
14. Labour welfare.
15. Wage policy. II. Labour laws:
16. Labour laws: perspectives.
17. The Trade Unions Act, 1926.
18. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.
19. The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946.
20. The Factories Act, 1948.
21. The Shops and Establishment Act, 1954.
22. The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition)Act, 1970.
23. The Minimum Wages Act, 1948.
24. The Payment of Wages Act, 1936.
25. The Equal Remuneration Act, 1978.
26. The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
27. The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923.
28. The Employee's State Insurance Act, 1948.
29. The Employees' Provident Funds, Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 and The Employee's Pension Scheme, 1995.
30. The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.
31. The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.
32. The Apprentices Act, 1961. III. Futuristic issues in industrial relations:
33. Redesigning industrial relations: an approach.