Simplified Approach to Labour Laws - For M.Com, MBA, CS, LL.B. and Other Professional Studies

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Description
My aim in writing the fifth edition of this book has been the same as it was for all previous editions, to provide students with a book that combines extracts from the decided cases and other materials with a substantial commentary of the provisions of law. Each Act has been preceded by its historical background to generate interest in this subject. To ensure clarity and easy understanding of the subject, each concept has been supported by judicial interpretations and case laws, at appropriate places. Courts and Legislature have been very active in the six years since the last edition of this book was published in 2011. This extensively revised edition takes account of scores of new judgments and includes extracts from the most significant cases decided after the release of fourth edition. This edition incorporates the major changes introduced by the EPF Act, 1952 (in the year 2014 & 2017); ESI Act, 1948 (in 2017); Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (in 2017); Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 (in 2015); Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (in 2017); and the Employee's Compensation Act, 1923 (in 2017). However, new cases included in this edition are too numerous to list fully. The revised edition of this book is designed mainly for the benefit of post graduate students in universities and professional bodies. However, given the growing interest in labour reforms in the country, I hope that a wide range of other readers may find the book of use. The book would be of immense use to legal practitioners, chartered accountants, company secretaries, cost accountants, managers, law officers, employers, employees, trade unions and all those interested in the study of labour laws in the country.
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Contents
DIVISION I : PROMINENT LABOUR LAWS WITH CASE STUDIES
1.    Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
2.    Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948
3.    Factories Act, 1948
4.    Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
5.    Minimum Wages Act, 1948
6.    Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
7.    Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
8.    Payment of Wages Act, 1936
9.    Trade Unions Act, 1926
10.  Employee's Compensation Act, 1923
DIVISION II : OTHER LABOUR LAWS
11.  The Apprentices Act, 1961
12.  The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions
        of Service) Act, 1996
13.  The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
14.  The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
15.  The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
16.  Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain
        Establishments) Act, 1988
17.   The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
18.   The Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service)
        and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
Appendix I : MBA, M.Com. (Regular & SOL) Examination Papers — Delhi University
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Author Details
J P Sharma (Jai Prakash Sharma) is a Professor of Law & Corporate Governance, and the immediate past Head and Dean, Faculty of Commerce & Business at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. In the last over 45 years of his academic career, he has held several academic and administrative positions. He has supervised 27 PhDs and 30 M.Phil dissertations. He has authored 20 books and over 100 research papers/articles published in several national and international journals of repute. He has been Visitor's (President of India)/Central Government Nominee on the University of Allahabad, BHU, NEHU, Sikkimjripura, HNB Garhwal, Central University of Jammu, and Central University of South Bihar. He is a Fellow Member of the ICSI and Member of several other professional bodies including ILI, ISTD, IMA, ICPS and ICA. He is member of Association of North America Higher Education International (ANAHEI)'s Educational Council. He is the Fellow Member of the Australian Academy of Business Leadership (AABL) and has been nominated on its 'Advisory Board'. He has been the Member of the Governing Body of SRCC, St. Stephens College and Chairman of IP College for Women, PGDAV College, and Guru Nanak Dev College under Delhi University. He is Member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of around a dozen internationally reputed journals. He has participated as an expert in over 150 national and international conferences/seminars/special lectures/panel discussions, delivered keynote and chaired various technical and valedictory sessions. He was invited to participate in a Panel Discussion in the 3rd Annual ICGS Conf at Rome in 2017; for lectures organized by Sussex Law School, Sussex Business School & Sussex School of Global Studies in 2016 and 2014; at the Department of Finance at Waikato Management School, New Zealand in 2015, at the Department of Management at the King's College, London in 2012; to delivera Keynote address in a two days International Conf organised by the ABRM'S Business and Management Review at London in 2012; to deliver Keynote in a 3 days Global Convention-cum-GOLDEN PEACOCK awarding ceremony organised by the World Council for Corporate Governance & IOD in London in 2011. He presented research papers at the ICGS Conf 2017 organised at LUIS Business School (Italy); ICGS Conf 2016 at Bentley University, Boston; the 3rd International Conf organised by the Cologne Business School (Germany) in 2016; NBA 2015 at the University of South Florida USA; AABL Sydney Conf 2015 organised at the University of Western Sydney and received the Best Paper Award with Cash Prize; at the 2012 WCLTA Conf organised in Brussels; 2012 World Finance Conf held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; CEA's International Conf organised at the UCD Dublin in July, 2011; CGIR International Conf at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2010; CEA Conf at University of Oxford, UK in July 2010 and Conference at the Birmingham Business School, UK in June 2009. He was selected from the country to attend the three days Corporate Governance Board Leadership Training Programme organised by the IFC (a World Bank Group) acting through the Global Corporate Governance Forum, USA. He has widely travelled to countries like USA, UK, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, China, Brazil, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Malta, Haiti, Jamaica, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal.
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