Industrial Relations

The amendments to section 65 will provide the limit of quarterly overtime hours to 144 hours instead of the current 75 hours and the condition of consent from workers for overtime work is specifically added.

Employer should take action and respond to the request of the union within the granted time about reconising protected wrmen. It is settled law that workmen, who are undesirable or dismissed on the ground of gross/major misconduct or facing trial for minor or major criminal offences can always be...

As the country recovers from the pandemic's devastating effects, a new landscape has emerged for employee relations and collective bargaining in the Indian industrial sector. Not only this there is another side to the coin …

One big reason for IR skills being at the brink of extinction has been the complex labour regime and the implementing agencies. Due to absence of fixed principles of IR management, lot of IR knowledge and skills is confined to certain old hats in the organisation.

Mindset of many organisations that HR professionals have no need for knowledge of Industrial Relations in today's world is a fallacy that has had a cascading effect. Rather in today's tech world model this relationship is going to be more complex having fully loaded with knowledge and information.

Essentially, trade unions are not that much effective today, and so the old IR skills have been replaced by new skills, but rights and liabilities of the employer and employees remain intact.

Some of the industries and corporate leaders have underestimated the relevance of IR under the myth that IR is not relevant for the new age industries and white-collar employees. This myth needs to be busted.

It should be priority of the organisations to develop people management skills in line/HR managers to avoid any unpleasant scenario and resolve the matters at early stage.

The days of assurances, good intent and fashionable and symbolic demonstration of gestures are over. The new challenge is "How much you care for me."

Though the concept of lifetime employment as unionized workman is reducing, new age employee relations have become more complex as the workplaces have become boundaryless with the emergence of gig workforce and service sector.