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Which among the following can become a member of ILO?

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According to Minimum Wages Act, 1948, who is an adolescent?

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Match the following.
List-I (Propagators) List-II (Theories of Wages)
a. David Ricardo 1. Residual Claimant Theory
b. Francis W. Walker 2. Marginal Productivity Theory
c. Karl Marx 3. Subsistence Theory
d. J. B. Clark 4. Surplus Value Theory

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Wage Negotiating Committees in India determine wages at

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Assertion (A) Wage differentials can be attributed to the imperfections of the employment markets.
Reason (R) Inter-industry wage differentials have been narrowing in developed countries than that in developing countries.

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The first organised Trade Union in India named as . . . . . . . . was formed in the year 1918.

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Which of the following statement(s) relating to the second National Commission on Labour is/are not true?
1. The commission envisaged a system of Labour Courts, Lok Adalats and Labour Relations Commissions as the integrated adjudicatory system in labour matters.
2. The commission recommended that the Essential Services Maintenance Act should be withdrawn.
3. The commission was in favour of setting up wage boards for fixing wage rates for workers in any industry.

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Match the following under the Employers Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.
List-I (Areas of Coverage) List-II (Schedules)
a. Matters for which provisions may be made in the Pension Scheme 1. Schedule IV
b. Matters for which provisions may be made in a scheme 2. Schedule II
c. Industries covered under the provisions of the act 3. Schedule III
d. Matters to be covered under the Deposit-linked Insurance Scheme 4. Schedule I

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Who regarded trade unions as "institutions for overcoming managerial dictatorship, to streng then individual labourers and to give them some voice in the determination of the conditions under which they have to work"?

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No adolescent who has not been granted a medical certificate certifying that he is fit for work as an adult shall be employed above ground in any open cast workings in a mine for more than . . . . . . . . in any day.

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Which of the following is not correct for labour welfare activities?

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Which of the following is an example of 'extra-mural' labour welfare?

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According to the Inter-state Workman Rules, 1980, in case of an accident the contractor needs to inform the specified authorities and next of the kins of the migrant workers within how many hours?

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According to Factories Act, 1948, what is the amount of overtime that can be paid to the workers?

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Match the following.
List-I List-II
a. Joint Consultative Board of Industry and Labour 1. 1958
b. Central Board for Workers Education 2. 1951
c. Shop Councils and Joint Councils 3. 1977
d. Unit Councils 4. 1975

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The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 shall become applicable to an establishment engaged in building and construction work employing a minimum number of

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Which section of the Child Labour (prohibition and regulation) Act, 1986 defines 'child'?

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Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. Welfare of labour is item number 21 on the concurrent list.
2. Labour is included in the concurrent list in the seventh schedule of the Indian constitution.
3. Social Security and insurance are item number 24 on the concurrent list. 4. Trade Union, industrial and labour disputes are item number 22 of the concurrent list.

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Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The International Labour Office is the permanent secretariat of the ILO.
2. Convention 182 regarding worst forms of Child Labour has been ratified by India.
3. International Labour Conference is also known as an international Parliament of labour.
4. International Labour Conference is a forum for discussion of key social and labour questions.
5. Trade Unions are involved in collecting wage data including fringe and personal benefits.
6. Strikes, boycotts and gheraos are militant functions of trade union.
7. Ministrant functions of trade unions involve providing financial support to members during strikes and lockouts.

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. . . . . . . . is an individual firm which takes the market wage rate as given, just as the firm in a perfectly competitive product market takes the price for its output as given.

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