DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.B.A. (Corporate Secretaryship) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
DECEMBER 2017.
Third Semester
LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL LAWS
(Upto 2012 13 Academic year and 2013 calendar year)
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — X 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
1. What are the weekly and the daily hours for which an
adult worker may be required or allowed to work in a
factory?
2. How far is an employer liable for compensation to an
employee injured by an accident arising out of and in the
course of his employment?
3. What is the object underlying the Industrial Disputes
Act, 1947?
4. What is the effect of supersession of the Employees' State
Insurance Corporation or the standing committee?
5. What establishments may be exempted from the
operation of the Employee's Provident Funds Scheme,
1952?
6. What are the rules relating to nomination by an employee
under the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972?
7. What are the rules regarding change of name of a trade
union?
8. What are the conditions for the eligibility of bonus? When
is an employee disqualified from receiving bonus?
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SECTION B — X 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. State the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 regarding
extra wages for overtime work
weekly holidays and
annual leave with wages.
10. How is the amount of compensation payable to an injured
employee calculated under the Employee's Compensation
Act, 1923?
11. Discuss the circumstances when compensation is or is not
payable to a workman who has been laid off.
12. What are the powers and duties of the Employees' State
Insurance Corporation, the standing committee and the
Medical Benefit Council?
13. "The payment of Wages Act, 1936 provides that the
wages are to be paid in a particular form at regular
intervals and without any unauthorised deductions".
Explain.
14. When can the registration of a trade union be cancelled or
withdraw? Is amalgamation of two or more trade unions
possible?
15. How is gross profit calculated in case of a company for the
purposes of bonus?