L.L.B-L.LB General 5th Sem CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND CURRENT AFFAIRS(Panjab University, Chandigarh-2009)

Industrial Disputes Act

1. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 aims at:

A) Providing social security benefits to the workmen

B) Regulating conditions of work in industries

C) Investigation and settlement of industrial disputes

D) Regulating the employment of women during certain periods

2. Retrenchment means:

A) Refusal by an employer to continue to employ a workman

B) Termination by the employer of the service of a workman for any reason whatsoever

C) Inability on the part of employer to provide employment to the workman

D) Voluntary retirement of a workman

3. The power of the Appropriate Government under Section 10 to refer industrial disputes for adjudication is:

A) An administrative power

B) Legislative power

C) Judicial power

D) Quasi-judicial power

4. Lockout is:

A) For trade reasons

B) An act on the part of employer taken to coerce or pressurise the labour

C) Not an intentional act

D) Not concerned with industrial dispute

5. Strike means:

A) Mere cessation of work

B) Cessation of work under common understanding

C) Cessation of work coupled with gherao of management

D) Slowing down production

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