Industrial Relations
Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi staying at A 15, Paryavaran Complex,
New Delhi 110030 (INDIA), Mobile : +91-9818097247 has designed a Masterplan Paradigm for the overall development of Industrial
Relation in the
following manner :
3.1 Principles
The starting point for industrial relations, as in all policy
areas, is ethics. The workplace should provide the opportunity
for workers to be empowered and to engage in safe, socially
useful and productive work. Criteria such as profitability and
efficiency are important in structuring a workplace, but they
are secondary.
The central issue in industrial relations is to maintain the
arbitration system as the protector of the public interest.
We support:
a) the provision of pathways for all employees to have work
which is safe, satisfying and socially useful;
b) opportunities for workers to receive education and training
appropriate for the achievement of these goals;
c) equal opportunities and fair and equitable treatment across
the workforce for all employees and workers including in
informal sector;
d) effective consultation between governments, employers and
unions on all aspects of industrial legislation;
e) processes of conciliation and arbitration as the proper bases
for a fair and effective industrial relations system;
f) the rights of unions and unionists to take industrial action
to protect and promote their legitimate industrial interests
without legal impediment;
g) the establishment of a Charter of Workers’ Rights (CWR) in
special legislation;
h) the right of all workers to be involved in participatory
planning; and
i) a wider role for the Indian Industrial Relations Commission (IIRC)
a body to be established as an arbiter in industrial disputes to
consider social and environmental implications regarding a
dispute. Appropriate representatives of relevant groups should
be given standing to appear in the Commission to present their
views regarding such implications.
3.2 Goals
We aim to:
a) maintain the system of industrial awards;
b) extend the system of equal opportunity throughout the
workforce;
c) develop flexible and democratic workplace patterns and
structures;
d) support the highest standards of workplace health and safety.
3.3 Short Term Targets
We will work to:
a) repeal the provisions against legitimate union activity such
as boycotts and pickets in the Trade Practices Act and other
pieces of Central legislation, and protect unions and workers
against common law actions;
b) provide accredited and transferable training and skill
development for employees in a national framework;
c) support a national system of industrial relations and
facilitate the provision of more flexible working
arrangements/hours where these are not at the expense of work
satisfaction, workers’ income or family life;
d) extend union participation in the Central industrial
relations system regardless of the nature of the employment of
their members, such as casual or part-time employees;
e) facilitate the continued effective and democratic functioning
of unions;
f) encourage employee owned or managed businesses, or businesses
with significant employee ownership or control;
g) establish processes which ensure the participation of women
in enterprise or collective bargaining and other industrial
negotiations;
h) support legislation that ensures that employers recognise and
negotiate with the relevant unions;
i) support only those enterprise agreements that do not
undermine the system of awards and award conditions, and support
enterprise agreements that involve employers and unions;
j) ensure resources are provided to organisations of the
unemployed to give them an effective voice in society.
