Labor law mediates the relationship between workers, trade unions, employers, and the government. In the following presentation, I have listed some of the important topics and the key feature of the Labor law.
2. Labor law or employment law is the branch of law concerned
with the rights and obligations of employers and employees,
with the broad aim of regulating the relations between
workers, employers and trade unions at the work place and
preventing the exploitation of workers.
3. It encompasses within its ambit regulation of
industrial relations like
prevention of unfair labor practices
health and security of employees and their working conditions
like providing minimum wages
reasonable working hours and regulating procedures for
closure of industries
retrenchment and lay-off of workers.
Labor law significantly makes provisions for greater
participation of workers in the management of industries and
provides platforms for them to negotiate with their
employers.
4. It also makes provisions
for creation of
institutions for dispute
resolution that are
sensitive to the unique
nature of such disputes.
Among other objectives,
this branch of law seeks
to secure higher levels of
employment, improved
working conditions,
raising the standard of
living of workers and
providing social and
economic security to
them.
5. Social and economic development of a nation is significantly
impacted by labor laws for these laws affect the rights of a group
that can change the face of the industrial scenario of a nation.
It is a vast area of law covering every aspect of relations between
employers, employees and unions and the rights of employees at
the workplace- from the contract of employment to prevention of
discrimination and from legitimacy of trade unions to the extent
of their participation in the various affairs at the
work place.
