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Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The workers need to be provided safe and good working conditions at their workplace as a part of the principle of Social Justice.
2. The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 is a regulative legislation.
3. The Payment of Bonus Act is a protective legislation.
4. India is one of the founding members of ILO.

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Which section of Minimum Wages Act, 1948 defines cost of living index number?

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Which of the following are true in context of labour and Indian Constitution?
1. Labour is included under the concurrent list- List III in the seventh schedule of Constitution of India.
2. In the case of labour legislation, there is a clause which says that state cannot enact a law which is repugnant to the Center.
3. Security and social insurance; employment and unemployment. These are item number 23 on the list.

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Under which legislation, housing is a statutory provision?

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Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Social Insurance is a unilateral obligation which is financed wholly or for a very large measures from the government's funds.
2. The labour welfare measures can substitute for wages.
3. The Placating theory is based on the fact that employees are becoming militant in nature.
4. According to trusteeship theory, the employer establishes an enterprise in trust for the benefit of people.

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Match the contents of different schedules given in List-I with their respective schedules given in List-II under the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948.
List-I List-II
a. Permissible levels of certain chemical substances in work environment 1. First Schedule
b. List of notifiable disease 2. Second Schedule
c. List of industries involving hazardous processes 3. Third Schedule

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The conceptual framework of labour welfare is contained in various theories of labour welfare. In the names of the theories given below, pick the wrong ones
1. The Trusteeship Theory
2. The Placating Theory
3. The Need Theory
4. The Friendship Theory
5. The Public Relations Theory
6. The Functional Theory

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Wages add into the cost of production' keeping the above statement in view which of the following will be correct?

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What is the maximum amount of gratuity that can be paid to an employee?

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Consider the following statements for the structured labour market. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
1. These markets limit the movement of workers due to the institutional rules, policies, and procedures.
2. The hiring policies are often deciding factor in wage determination.
3. Edmund Phelps classified structured and unstructured labour markets.

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Match the following with their correct sections of the Contract Labour Act, 1972.
List-I List-II
a. Controlled Industry 1. 2(e)
b. Principal Employer 2. 2(d)
c. Establishment 3. 2(f)
d. Control Labour 4. 2(b)

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Which of the following acts gave fillip to our labour union movement in the period between 1924 and 1935 with the emergence of left-wing trade unions?

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Match the following theories of wages List-I with their propagators List-II.
List-I List-II
a. Standard of Living theory 1. J. S. Mill
b. Wage Fund theory 2. J. B. Clark
c. Residual Claimant theory 3. Karl Marx
d. Marginal Productivity theory 4. Francis A. Walker

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Which of the following is the primary activity in the Indian economy?

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According to the Building and other Construction Workers (regulation of employment and conditions of service) Act, 1996 how many members constitute the State Advisory Board?

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Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. A minimum rate of wages for the time spent by employees for the production of output is minimum time rate.
2. Minimum piece rate is the rate based on the quantity of the output employees have produced.
3. The guaranteed time rate is a minimum rate of remuneration to apply in the case of employees employed on piece work for the purpose of securing to such employees a minimum rate of wages on a time work basis.
4. A minimum rate of remuneration to apply in the case of employees employed on piece work for the purpose of securing to such employees a minimum rate of wages on a time work basis is overtime rate.

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Which of the following is not part of the recommendations of Indian Labour Conference on 'rationalisation'?

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Carpel Tunnel syndrome is related to which of the following?

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Which of the following is incorrect for the concept of labour welfare?

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For every completed year of service in excess of six months, the employer shall pay gratuity to an employee for wages based on what rate?

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