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Human Resource Management

Notes interests and provide for a popular agency for supervising the management of nationalized
under takings.

Functions of the Council

The Indian Labour Conference at its 15th session in July 1957, after considering the report of a
study team on workers' participation abroad, accepted in principle the idea of setting up JMCs
in India.
1. Equal representation to workers and management.

2. The council to be entitled.
3. To be consulted on certain specific matters such as administration of standing order and
their amendments, when needed; retrenchment, rationalization, and closer; reduction in
or cessation of operation.
4. To receive information, to discuss and give suggestion on such other matter as the general
economic situation of the concern, the state of market, production and sales programmes,
methods of manufacture and work.
5. To be entrusted with administrative responsibilities for the administration and supervision
of welfare measures, safety measure, vocation training and apprenticeship schemes,
provision of schedules for working hours, breaks and holidays, etc.

All matters, which are subjects for collective bargaining, are to be excluded the creation of new
rights as between the employers and workers, which is a matter for negotiating of bargaining,
was to kept completely outside the jurisdiction of the management council

13.8 Settlement Machinery for Resolving Disputes

Various types of settlement machinery involved are as follows:

13.8.1 Conciliation

Conciliation may be described as the practice by which the services of a neutral third party are
used in dispute as a mean of the helping the dispute parties to reduce the extent of their difference
and to arrive at an amicable settlement or agreed solution. It is a process of rational and orderly
discussion of difference between the parties to dispute under the guidance of conciliator.
It is a process by which representatives of workers and employers are brought together before
a third person or group of person with a view to persuading them to arrive at an agreement by
mutual discussion between them.
In process of peacemaking in industrial relations, conciliation tends to bring a speedy settlement
of dispute without resort to strike or lockout, and to hasten the termination of work-stoppage
when these have occurred. Its function is to assist the parties to move towards a mutually
acceptable compromise or solution.

Types of Conciliation

Conciliations are of two types which are as follows:
1. Voluntary Conciliation: In voluntary conciliation, the disputes are referred to the conciliation
officer or the board of conciliation by both parties of their own free will; they to have their
dispute settled by an outsider; but they are free to accept or not to accept the decision.

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