Industrial relations in modern manufacturing increasingly involve complex triangular relationships between the principal employer, contractors, and contract workers. While the contractor is legally the employer of contract labour, operational realities often place the principal employer at the...
Why job quality, skill mismatch, and policy design are at the heart of India’s labour challenge.
Workers are no longer comparing themselves only within their immediate workplace; they are benchmarking across locations, companies, and even states. When wage revisions occurred in one geography but not another—especially within the same organisation, it created a powerful sense of injustice. In...
The objective of “INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000”, as amended, is : To provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication, commonly referred to as ?electronic commerce, which involve the use of...
When conciliation fails, the law must provide a forum that is credible, accessible and swift. Industrial peace depends not only on fair wages, lawful discipline or collective bargaining structures, but also on confidence that disputes will be resolved in time. A delayed decision in industrial...
The book has 15 chapters comprising 75 topics. It started with foundational discussions on the evolution of Indian labour laws from pre-independence days, runs through the post-liberalisation regime and attempts to integrate the concept of Viksit Bharat. Consolidating 29 labour laws into 4 labour...
