INDUTRIAL DISPUTES

INDUSTRIAL
DISPUTES

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947:-” Any

Dispute Or Difference Between
employees & Employees, Or Between
Employers & Employers, Or Between
Employees & Employers Which Is
Connected With The Employment Or
Non Employment, Or The Terms Of
Employment Or With the Conditions Of
 Forms Of Disputes
Industrial Disputes

INTEREST GRIEVANCE UNFAIR LABOUR RECOGNITION

DISPUTES – It DISPUTES – PRACTICES – Arise DISPUTES –
arises out of Arise from day from acts of Arise due to the
deadlocks in to day interference with the recognition of
negotiation grievances. exercise of right to trade union as a
organise, Acts etc. bargaining agent.
CAUSES OF INDUSTRIAL
DISPUTES

n INDUSTRY RELATED
n MANAGEMENT RELATED

n GOVERNMENT RELATED
 INDUSTRY RELATED
(a)Matters related to employment, work, wages,
hours of work, privileges, rights and
obligation of employees, terms and
condition of employment.
(b)Dispute often arise because of the population
explosion and rising unemployment.
(c)Increasing prices of essential commodities.
(d)The attitude and temperament of industrial
workers.
 MANAGEMENT RELATED
(a)Management generally is not willing to talk over any disputes
with the employees or their representative.
(b)The management unwillingness to recognize a particular trade
union.
(c)Even when the representative of trade union have been
recognized by employers, they do not delegate enough
authority to their official to negotiate with their workers.
(d)The representative of the employees/ workers unnecessarily or
unjustifiably take the side of management .
(e)The management insistence that it alone is responsible for
recruitment, promotion, transfer, merit awards etc. and
there is no need to consult employees.
(f) The poor services and benefits to be offered after negotiation.
 GOVERNMENT RELATED
(a)Most of the labour laws lost their irrelevancy in the context
of the challenges of present industrial climate.
(b)
(c)Instability in economy and political factors.
f)
g) Inability to check employers in implementing labour laws.
h)
i) Inability of government’s conciliation machinery in doing
its job effectively.
j)
k) Influence of political parties which is in power on trade
union.
(j)
 IN DUSTRIAL
DISPUT ES

STRIKES LOCK - OUTS

1.Primary 2. Secondary
Strikes Strikes

Sympathy Strike

Stay-
away Go Work Token or Boycott Sit down;
Protest Lightening
Gherao Slow to stay-in; tool
rule strike or Cat-call down or pen
strike
down strike
 1. PRIMARY STRIKE
n PRIMARY STRIKES generally aimed against the
employer with whom the dispute exist. These
are of following type
I. Stay – away Strike – Workmen do not come to the
workplace during the prescribed working hours.
They organize rallies and demonstrations with
a view to drawing the attention of the employer
to their grievances.
II.Sit – Down or Stay – in Strike – Workmen come to
their place, they stay at work place but they
don’t work.
III.Token or Protest strike – workmen don’t work for an
hour or a day.
IV.Go Slow – Workers intentionally reduce the speed of work
(anything less than normal work)
V. Work to Rule/Work to Designation – Strikers undertake the
work according too rules or job description.
VI.Picketing – It is an act of posting pickets and implies
machinery or patrolling of the workman in front of the
premises of the employer.
VII.Boycott – It aims at disrupting the normal functioning of
the enteprise.
VIII.Gherao – It is a physical blockade of a target either by
encirclement, intended to block the regress and ingress
from and to a particular office, workshop etc.
IX.Hunger Strike– It is restored to either by leaders of the
union or by some workers, all at a time in small
batches, for a limited period of time.
 2 . SECONDARY STRIKE
n SECONDARY STRIKES are those in which the
pressure is applied not against the primary
employer with whom the primary workers have
a dispute but against some third person who has
good trade relation with him which are severed
and the primary employers incurs a loss.
n It is popular in USA.
n It is also known as Sympathetic Strike. Workers
have no demands and grievances of their own
but they go on strike just to support others.
 LOCKOUTS
n LOCKOUTS means the action of an
employer in temporarily closing
down or shutting down his
undertaking or refusing to provide
his employees with work with the
intention of forcing them either to
accept the demands made by him or
to withdraw demands made by them
on him.
n According to Industrial Disputes Act,
1947, Section 2(1),
 “the closing of a place of
business of employment or the
suspension of work, or the refusal by
an employer to continue to employ
 MEASURES TO IMPROVE
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES
n PROGRESSIVE MANAGEMENT OUTLOOK.
n ATMOSPHERE OF MUTUAL TRUST.
n MUTUAL ACCOMODATION COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING.
n SINCERE IMPLEMENTATION OF
AGREEMENTS.
n SOUND PERSONNEL POLICIES.
INSDUTRIAL DISPUTES, A
RECENT OVERVIEW
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