Description

Unit 1
Employee Relations Management (ERM) & Industrial Relation: Introduction and
Importance of Employee Relations, Employee Relations Management Tools, Approaches
to Understand IR, the Trends of Industrial Relations in India, Factors Leading the Present State
of Industrial Relations, Impact of Globalization on the Liberalized Economy Emerging
challenges of IR in India, Linking Industrial Relations with the economic growth of a country,
Trade Unionism: Development of trade unionism, functions, type and structure of trade union,
Why Employees Join Trade Unions, Trade Unions in the Eyes of the Management, Politics and
Trade Unions, Outside Leadership of Trade Unions problems & suggestive remedial measures of
trade unions, The Trade Unions Act 1926& Amendment Bill, 2019: Objective, Recognition and
registration, Industrial Democracy, and participative Management. Case Studies.

Unit2
Collective Bargaining: Significance, types & procedure of Collective bargaining Discipline:
The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1961, Misconduct, Disciplinary Action,
Types of Punishments, Code of Discipline, Domestic Enquiry, Grievance Handling in IR:
Grievance Settlement Procedure, Industrial Disputes, Preventive & Settlement Machinery in
India. Employee Participation and Empowerment: Objectives, Employee
Participation, Advantages of Employee Participation, Employee Participation in India,
Methods of Participation, Employee Empowerment. Case Studies

Unit 3
The Factories Act, 1948 & The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2016 & The shop & Establishment
Act 1948, The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 and amendment in 2020, The Workmen’s
compensation Act, 1923, The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

Unit 4
The Payment of Minimum Wages Act 1948 & its revisions 2019, 2020 & 2021, The Contract
Labor (Abolition & regulative) Act The ESI Act, 1948, and the latest amendments, Child Labour
(Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986, and its latest amendment. The Trade Unions Act, 1926 &
Amendment Bill, 2019, Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 and its latest
amendment.

Unit 5
The payment of Bonus Act, 1965 and amendments, The payment of Gratuity Cat, 1972 and its
amendment 2018, The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, and amendments, Employee’s Provident
fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.