Trade Unions
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3. What is voluntary separation?
4. What is a lay-off?
13.4 ANSWERS TO CHECK YOUR PROGRESS
QUESTIONS
1. Although it is not necessary to register a trade union, it is desirable since a
trade union which registered is entitled to certain rights and privileges.
2. Sociologists view workers’ participation as an instrument of varying
potentialities to improve industrial relations and promote industrial peace.
3. When an employee leaves the company on his or her own accord, it is
known as voluntary separation.
4. Lay-off means the inability or refusal of a company to provide job to an
employee on the grounds of shortage of coal, power, or raw materials, or
the breakdown of machinery.
13.5 SUMMARY
Under the Trade Unions Act, 1926, employees (including association
of employers) are registered to form trade unions for collective
bargaining. The Act gives the registered trade unions certain protection
and privileges.
Several trade unions in one organization can result in several problems,
affecting the growth and stability of both the workers and the
organization.
Psychologists consider participation as a mental and emotional involvement
of a person in a group situation which encourages workers to share
managerial responsibility.
Collective bargaining is defined to cover the negotiation, administration,
interpretation, application and enforcement of written agreements between
employers and unions representing their employees setting forth joint
understandings as to policies and procedures governing wages, rates of
pay, hours of work and other conditions of employment.
Employee separation is a process which ensures that an employee who is
leaving the organization makes his exit in a structured and systematic
manner.
