The Indian labour law encyclopedia

The regime of labour law in India is centered around employment and other related issues to labour and labour standards in India. The application of the law relates to any kind of dispute that arises out of employment between either the employer of the employee or employee and employee. The subject matter of the dispute is irrelevant unless it relates to matters of employment i.e., benefits scheme, working hours, wage revisions, termination, other standards, etc. However, within this general legal framework of the labour laws, the Information Technology and relates ventures have been exempted by virtue of the Indian IT industries were exempted from the Industrial Employment Standing Orders Act, 1946. However, it was only recently that the government decided to extend the purview of the labour laws in India for private companies to the extent so as to cover within its ambit, enterprises and ventures based on the Information Technology Act. Its regulation by the labour law regime

  The development of labour law remains in a large part in the period when industrial production was introduced. The formation and development of factory legislation is regarded as the seed of the creation of labour law. Several authors have though claimed that the legal regulation of labour relations does not originate solely from the development of factory legislation but the modern labour law has several connections with Roman private law and the modern employment contract has, in fact, evolved as a result of the classification of contracts found in Roman law. For the purposes of distinguishing between private and public law, analyses has always focused primarily on three different options, the first of which goes back to the ancient Roman times, whereas the other approaches are more modern. In some cases, approach motivated by interest as used by Roman jurists has been employed. The state is always interested in maintaining order in the relationships between people.   Pu