State Labour Laws

General

A significant feature of almost all of labour laws is the existence of employer-employee nexus. Besides of this, each labour law contain its provisions in terms of coverage, based basically on the number of employees, salary levels and so on. The description of expressions utilized in different labour laws is not essentially uniform. All of these have resulted in considerable amount of leading to a huge amount of industrial jurisprudence, litigation.

Another significant point to note is that when all of the labour laws, excepting Shops and Establishment Acts, are enacted by Parliament, rather a few of them are implemented, both by the Central Government & the State Governments (by including Union Territories); the jurisdiction being resolute by the explanation of the term 'appropriate government' in the relevant statute. It is also related to point out that some Parliamentary laws are implemented exclusively by the State Governments, for instance Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923; Trade Unions Act, 1926; Plantation Labour Act, 1951; Factories Act 1948 Working Journalists Act 1955; and so on.