This document discusses industrial relations and legislations in India. It defines industrial relations as the relations between management and unions or employees and employers. It outlines the important aspects of cooperation and conflict. It also describes the unitary, pluralistic, and Marxist approaches to industrial relations. Trade unions are defined as combinations of workmen and employers that regulate their relations. The roles of the state, employers, and employers' organizations in industrial relations are examined. Employers' organizations operate at the local, regional, and central levels to represent employers' interests.

1. Industrial Relations and
Legislations

2. Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations can be defined as the
relations between managements and unions or
between representatives of employees and
representatives of employers.

3. Important Aspects of Industrial
Relations
• Cooperation
• Conflict

4. Approaches to Industrial Relations
• Unitary Approach
• Pluralistic Approach
• Marxist Approach

5. Tradeunion
Trade Union means any combination whether
temporary or permanent, formed primarily for
the purpose of regulating the relations between
workmen and employers or between workmen
and workmen, or between employers and
employers, or for imposing restrictive conditions
on the conduct of any trade or business and
includes any federation of two or more trade
unions

6. State and Employer / Management :
The participants of Industrial Relation
Activities
Employers Association / Organisations
An EO or employers’ association is a collective
organisation of manufacturers, retailers or other
employers of wage labour.
Objectives of Eos
• Develop healthy and stable industrial relations
• Promote collective bargaining at all levels
• Promote and protect the interest of workers

7. Eos operate at following three levels
• Local Organisations – The Bombay Mill
Owners Association
• Regional Organisations – Employers Federatio
to South India
• Central Organisations –
All India organisations of Employers (AIOE)
Employers’ Federation of India (EFI)

8. Different Eos in India
• International Organization of Employers (IOE)
• Standing Conference of Public Enterprises
(SCOPE)
• Council of Indian Employers (CIE)