Labour LAWS

Labour Law is the body of law that governs the employer-employee relationship, including individual employment contracts, the application of tort and contract doctrines, and a large group of statutory regulation on issues such as the right to organize and negotiate collective bargaining agreements, protection from discrimination, wages and hours, and health and safety.

The law relating to labour and employment in India is primarily known under the broad category of "Labour and Industrial Law".

Factors responsible for shaping the Indian Labour legislation include:

The prevailing social and economic conditions

The views expressed by important nationalist leaders during the days of national freedom struggle

The provisions of the Constitution

The International Conventions and Recommendations.

Important human rights and the conventions and standards that have emerged from the United Nations.

The deliberations of the various Sessions of the Indian Labour Conference and the International Labour Conference.

Recommendations of the various National Committees and Commissions such as First National Commission on Labour (1969) under the Chairmanship of Justice Gajendragadkar, National Commission on Rural Labour (1991), Second National Commission on Labour (2002) under the Chairmanship of ShriRavindraVarma etc.

Judicial pronouncements on labour related matters specifically pertaining to minimum wages, bonded labour, child labour, contract labour etc.