Industrial Adjudication: Need for Reform
Keywords:
industrial dispute, order of reference, adjudication, Administrative order, Appropriate Government.Abstract
Our country as a nascent democracy had adopted system of state intervention for resolving industrial disputes through conciliation and adjudication. This system has been relaxed in the year 1965 and 2010 for resolving individual disputes. Arbitration as a mode of resolving industrial disputes had also been introduced. Now in this Amrit kaal, time has come to review the need for state intervention in the industrial disputes. The Industrial Disputes Act 1947 (IDA) has been enacted for the investigation and settlement of industrial disputes, among other things. The timely and effective resolution of industrial disputes makes way for industrial peace. The existence of industrial peace is extremely important for industrial production and overall national economy. The IDA has adopted the system of compulsory adjudication of industrial disputes to ensure that there is no simmering of industrial unrest leading in turn to work-stoppages at shop/industry level.
