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Labour Legislations

Notes 7.10 Keywords

Adjudication: It is compulsory method of resolving conflict/dispute.
Conciliation: A process by which representatives of management and employees and their
unions are brought together before a third person with a view to persuade them to arrive at
some agreement.
ID Act, 1947: A law for investigation and settlement of industrial disputes and other related
matters. ID Bill was introduced in Central Legislative Assembly in October, 1946; passed in
March 1947; and implemented w.e.f. 1st April 1947. Since the 35 Amendments done to it. It has 9
chapters and 40 sections.
Industrial Disputes: Any dispute or difference between employees and employees, or between
employers and employers, which is connected with the employment, or non-employment, or
the terms of employment or with the conditions of work of any person.
Voluntary Arbitration: When conciliation officer or Board of conciliation fails to resolve conflict/
dispute, parties can be advised to agree to voluntary arbitration for settling their dispute.

7.11 Self Assessment

Choose the appropriate answer:
1. ……………. can also cause a conflict,

(i) Layoff (ii) Refusal to accept demand
(iii) Retirement of CEO (iv) Both (i) and (ii)
2. Conflict that has not actually happened but may happen is ………………….. conflict

(i) Latent (ii) Manifest
(iii) Perceived (iv) None of the above
3. The 3rd party who comes in for conciliation is ………………..
(i) Conciliation officer (ii) Board of conciliation
(iii) Conciliation Committee (iv) (i) or (ii)

4. Settlement arrived at by agreement between management and workers outside conciliation
proceeding is only……………….
(i) Binding on both the employer and his heirs

(ii) Binding on only the employer
(iii) Binding on the parties of the agreement
(iv) Binding on conciliation officer

5. Arbitration and Adjudication …………………… simultaneously.
(i) Can be used (ii) Cannot be used
(iii) May be used (iv) Should be used
6. Which of them is not a compulsory method of resolving conflict?
(i) Conciliation (ii) Adjudication

(iii) Arbitration (iv) Both (i) and (iii)

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