BMBHR02

Employee Relations and Labour Laws

L-T-P3-0-0 Session2025-26 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

MBA General · Sem 3 (Specialization: Human Resource Management (HR))

Syllabus

5 units · 40 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1

9 hrs

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 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 & Participative Management. Case Studies

Unit2

Unit 2

8 hrs

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

Unit3

Unit 3

8 hrs

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

Unit4

Unit 4

8 hrs

The Payment of Minimum wages act 1948 & its revisions 2019, 2020 & 2021, The Contract Labor (Abolition & regulative) act The ESI Act, 1948 and latest amendments, Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 and its latest amendment,

Unit5

Unit 5

7 hrs

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 .

Course Objectives4 points
  • To Provide conceptual framework of Industrial Relation
  • To make students aware with the Indian Labor legislation
  • To make students aware with the basic requirements and mandate of labor legislations
  • To help the students to understand the existing framework of Industrial Relation and Labor legislation.
Course Outcomes (COs)4 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO2Competency to understand the importance of Employee Relation within the perspective of Industrial Relation K2(Understand)
  2. CO3Application of relevant Laws of HR management K3(Apply)
  3. CO4Competency to interpreted and implement the Labor Laws within organization (Evaluate)K5
  4. CO5Competency mapping to use Collective Bargaining and Grievance redressal Mechanism K6(Create)

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 22, 23 of the original AKTU PDF.

Official AKTU syllabus PDF ↗