This book provides complete coverage of India’s 20+ laws governing the following:

• Labour Laws
• Industrial Relations Laws, and
• Industrial Disputes

Along with the above, the readers get a specially curated & 50+ page ‘Guide to Labour Laws’ to understand better the laws governing labour & industrial disputes.

The Present Publication is the 2024 Edition and amended up to 31^st December 2023. This book is edited by Taxmann’s Editorial Board, with the following coverage:

• Apprentices Act, 1961
• Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
• Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
• Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923
• Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
• Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
• Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959
• Equal Remuneration Act, 1976*
• Factories Act, 1948
• Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
• Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
• Industrial Tribunals
• Labour Laws (Simplification of Procedure for Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988
• Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
• Minimum Wages Act, 1948*
• Payment of Bonus Act, 1965*
• Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
• Payment of Wages Act, 1936*
• Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976
• Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013
• Trade Unions Act, 1926
• Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021

* Shall be repealed by Code on Wages, 2019, with effect from a date yet to be notified