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Unit 13: Industrial Relations

3. Protection of weaker sections in the community. Notes
4. Maintenance of Industrial Peace.
5. Creation of conditions for economic growth.
6. Protection and improvement of labour standards.

7. Protect workers from exploitation.
8. Guarantee right of workmen to combine and form association or unions.
9. Ensure right of workmen to bargain collectively for the betterment of their service
conditions.
10. Make state interfere as protector of social well being than to remain an onlooker.
11. Ensure human rights and human dignity.
Proper regulation of employee-employer relationship is a condition precedent for planned,
progressive and purposeful development of any society. The objectives of labour legislation
are a developing concept and require ceaseless efforts to achieve them on a continuous
basis.
In its landmark judgement in Hindustan Antibiotics vs. The Workmen (A.I.R. 1967, S.C. 948;
(1967) 1, Lab.L.J.114) the Supreme Court of India made a significant observation. The object of
the Industrial law, said the Court, was to bring in improvements in the service conditions of
industrial labour by providing them the normal amenities of life, which would lead to industrial
peace. This would accelerate the productive activities of the nation, bringing prosperity to all
and further improving the conditions of labour.
13.9.2 The Classification of Labour Legislations

On the basis of specific objectives, which it has sought to achieve, the labour legislations can be
classified into following categories:

1. Regulative
2. Protective
3. Wage-Related
4. Social Security
5. Welfare both inside and outside the workplace

The Regulative Labour Legislation
The main objective of the regulative legislation is to regulate the relations between employees
and employers and to provide for methods and manners of settling industrial disputes. Such
laws also regulate the relationship between the workers and their trade unions, the rights
and obligations of the organisations of employers and workers as well as their mutual
relationships.

The Trade Unions Act, 1926
Trade unions are primarily formed to regulate the relations between workmen and employers.
Upon registration, trade unions enjoy certain protection and privileges under the law. In addition,
the Act also provides for imposing restrictions on the conduct of any trade or business A registered

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