Directorate of distance education master of business administration

Industrial Amity and Peace    
 
The Government has passed Industrial Disputes Act 1947. 
According to this Act, “industrial dispute’ means “any dispute or 
difference between employers and employees employers and workmen, 
or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the 
employment or non-employment or the terms of employment and 
conditions of employment of any person”. 
There are elaborate provisions relating to ‘Strikes and Lock-outs’. 
The Act also has created machinery for prevention of industrial disputes. 
They are as follows: 
1.  Works committee 
2.  Standing orders 
3.  Code of discipline 
For settlement of industrial disputes the mechanisms are 
1.  Conciliation         
2.  Arbitration 
3.  Adjudication 
For adjudication Labour Court, Industrial Tribunal and National 
Tribunal are setup. The legal provisions are not elaborated since the 
focus is on  how the Government helps human resources and their rights 
through legislative framework. 
Trade Union Act 1926, gives permission to form and register Trade 
Unions with rights and duties, to strengthen their bargaining power and 
for obtaining rightful concessions from management.