This book primarily aims to enhance the knowledge of HR and IR professionals in the labour laws of India. It also seeks to develop a holistic understanding of managing the interest of workers and employers hand in hand. This book compiles the legislation dealing with the following: • Industrial Relations • Wages • Work Conditions • Social Security • Employment of Women and Children This book will be helpful as a textbook for business management students specialising in human resource management and HR professionals. The Present Publication is the 2nd Edition, authored by Dr Parul Gupta, with the following noteworthy features: • [Simple & Lucid Language with an Application-Oriented Approach] has been followed throughout this book • [Student-Oriented Book] This book has been developed keeping in mind the following factors: o Interaction of the author/teacher with their students in the classroom o Shaped by the author/teacher's experience of teaching the subject matter at different levels for more than three decades o Reactions and responses of students have also been incorporated at different places in the book • [Amended & Updated] The 2nd edition incorporates amendments made in the labour legislation in the recent past • [Case Studies & Judgements along with their Explanation] has been included to provide a holistic understanding of labour legislations and the approach of the court of law to settle industrial disputes • [Case Studies] are included in the book to augment better learning • [Chapter End Questions including Descriptive and Multiple Choice Questions] are included in this book to supplement classroom inputs The structure of the book is as follows: • Chapter one highlights the importance of industrial relations for businesses and HR professionals, followed by an overview of significant changes proposed in the four labour codes • Chapter two throws light on the evolution of labour laws in India and major categories of labour legislation • Chapters three to eighteen discuss in detail various provisions of labour laws which can be broadly divided into three categories, such as: o Protective and Employment Legislations o Social Security Legislations o Regulatory Legislations The detailed contents of the book are as follows: • Industrial Relations and the Labour Codes • Evolution of Labour Legislation in India • Factories Act, 1948 • Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 • Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 • Employee's Compensation Act, 1923 • Employee's State Insurance Act, 1948 • Employee's Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 • Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 • Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 • Payment of Wages Act, 1936 • Minimum Wages Act, 1948 • Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 • Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 • Trade Unions Act, 1926 • Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 • Apprentices Act, 1961 • Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959

Employment Law, 2nd edition examines the relevant statutes, judicial decisions, executive orders, and administrative policies that shape the respective rights of managers and workers at the workplace. It goes well beyond simply stating what is legal and what is illegal, assuming that the student or professional needs to understand the principles underlying the law so that he or she can evaluate an organization's decisions against those principles. A practical but rigorous guide to US employment law, thoroughly updated for this second edition Includes wide use of case material and administrative regulation, including new cases illustrating the continued application of disparate treatment and disparate impact analysis, and more current examples of grooming Each chapter covers historical, social and economic factors giving rise to government intervention in employment relationship; evaluates relevant law policy; discusses of basic legal principles; and considers how law affects HR management Includes new material on gender and leave issues in employment; EEO classifications; employment of the handicapped; courts and affirmative-action; employer involvement in employee non-work activities; drug testing and the law; and inclusion of recent legal doctrine. Oriented both to students taking a course in employment law and to human resources professionals who need to deal daily with matters that have legal significance.

This collection of key readings introduces the reader to the intellectual background and economic concepts that inform modern law. The readings are introduced by the two editors, both scholars in this field, and accompanied by notes and questions for the student.

ÔWachter and Estlund have assembled a feast on the economic analysis of issues in labor and employment law for scholars and policy-makers. The volume begins with foundational discussions of the economic analysis of the individual employment relationship and collective bargaining. It then progresses to discussions of the theoretical and empirical work on a wide range of important labor and employment law topics including: union organizing and employee choice, the impact of unions on firm and economic performance, the impact of unions on the enforcement of legal rights, just cause for dismissal, covenants not to compete and employment discrimination. Anyone who wants to study what economists have to say on these topics would do well to begin with this collection.Õ Ð Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Indiana University Bloomington School of Law, US This Research Handbook assembles the original work of leading legal and economic scholars, working in a variety of traditions and methodologies, on the economic analysis of labor and employment law. In addition to surveying the current state of the art on the economics of labor markets and employment relations, the volumeÕs 16 chapters assess aspects of traditional labor law and union organizing, the law governing the employment contract and termination of employment, employment discrimination and other employer mandates, restrictions on employee mobility, and the forum and remedies for labor and employment claims. Comprising a variety of approaches, the Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law will appeal to legal scholars in labor and employment law, industrial relations scholars and labor economists.

Labor and Employment Law in the United States is a unique and important treatise that in a single, concise text covers all aspects of the law of work both in organized and unorganized workplaces. it surveys the full range of legal principles and statutory and administrative structures and procedures that govern employment relations. Additionally, it provides essential background information that places the law in context with the economic, political and social forces which shape its development. Labor and Employment Law in the United States is a complete revision of Professor Goldman's earlier treatise Labor Law and Industrial Relations in the U.S.A. . The title change reflects the impact of developments in the law of the workplace during the past decade and a half, with the resulting expansion of the treatise's coverage of the law and individual employment contracts, As well as examination of new federal legislation such as the American with Disabilities Act, The Family and Medical Leave Act And The Plant Closing Act (WARN). Labor and Employment Law in the United States will serve equally well as a desk reference for lawyers and labor relations specialists and as a text for courses in industrial relations, human resources and training programs. This treatise was originally published as part of the International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations .

An authoritative treatise to be used as a source of materials in conjunction with casebooks on labor management relations.