M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Third Semester
Management Studies
LABOUR LAWS
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. What do you mean by manufacturing process?
2. Who is a worker?
3. Define wages.
4. What is the main object of the minimum wages act, 1948?
5. What do you mean by Accounting year?
6. What is meant by Superannuation?
7. Write a note on the amalgamation of trade unions.
8. What are the characteristics of registered Trade union?
9. Write short note on Executive committee.
10. What is Employee's state insurance fund?
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AFF-4832
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Ws9
Part B x 5 25)
Answer all questions.
11. What provisions have been made in the Factories
Act, 1948 for protection against fire and for safety of
building and machinery of a factory.
Or
How is the amount of compensation payable to an
injured workman calculated under the Workmen's
Compensation Act, 1923?
12. State the provisions of the payment of Wages Act,
1936 regarding deduction from wages for absence
from duty.
Or
Give the procedure for fixing and revising minimum
wages.
13. When does an employee forfeit his right to gratuity?
Or
How is gross profit calculated in case of a company
for the purposes of bonus?
14. What are the rules regarding change of name of a
trade union?
Or
What are the conditions precedent to a lock-out of a
factory?
15. What is employees state insurance fund? What are
the purposes for which the fund may be expended?
Or
What are the rules as to payments and recovery of
contributions by an employer?
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Ws9
Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. What are the provisions of the Employee's providend
funds and miscellaneous provision act, 1952 for
protection of provident fund money against attachment?
17. Briefly explain the provisions relating to dissolution of a
trade union under the Trade Unions Act 1926.
18. What are the rules for determination and distribution of
bonus? How can bonus be recovered by the employees?
19. What defences are available to an employer against a
claim for compensation made by a workman under the
workmen's Compensation Act, 1923?
20. What remedy is available to a worker who has been paid
less then minimum rate of wages?
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