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INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS AND LABOUR LAWS
1. PQR is a sugar manufacturing factory situated at a remote
village in Ahmednagar. The factory buys sugarcane for the nearby villagers and
sells the sugar manufactured, to the wholesalers at Pune. Male, female and
children from the nearby villages are employed to work in the factory. Since
the factory is situated at a remote area the basic health, safety and welfare
provisions that should be provided to the employees are not available. The
female employees were made to work overtime. The children had to work on and
near dangerous machines. The employees were not paid overtime wages and were
also not given the requisite holidays. Last month a group from an NGO visited
the factory and after analyzing the condition suggested that the employees form
a trade union under the provision of the Trade Unions Act. Analyze the
situation and relate it with the different functions of a trade union.
2. A company permitted the employees to take 75 holidays in a
year. Due to financial problems the management decided to cut down the holidays
to 60 per year. The employees were unhappy with the decision and approached the
Trade Union. The employees got together and decided to raise the issue with the
management. Since all the employees were against the decision, the management
was compelled to reach to a bargaining situation. At the end it was decided
that the employees will be given holidays for 60 days only. But to compensate
for the cancelled holidays, the management will pay each employee wages for 20
days in the month of December. What were the different functions taken that led
to a successful collective bargaining?
3. Mrs. Payal is an employee, with a software company. She is
employed as a system administrator. Along with her, two more colleagues David
and Manisha are employed in the company at the same position. Mrs. Payal goes
on a maternity leave for a period of 12 weeks. Before going on leave she had
completed her assignments and no work was pending. During her leave, David and
Manisha coped with the work and therefore the manager did not feel the need to
appoint a temporary employee in Payal's place. Also in her absence the business
did fairly well and there was no instance which required her presence. Now,
Payal is completing her 12 weeks of maternity leave and is about to return to
work. But the manager now feels that the office can cope without her and not
hiring her back will also save company’s some money.
a) What would be your advice to the manager?
b) What remedies does Payal have?
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