Labour Laws may be classified under the following heads:
I. Laws related to Industrial Relations such as:
l Trade Unions Act, 1926
l Industrial Employment Standing Order Act, 1946.
l Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.
II. Laws related to Wages such as:
l Payment of Wages Act, 1936
l Minimum Wages Act, 1948
l Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
III. Laws related to Working Hours, Conditions of Service and Employment such as:
l Factories Act, 1948.
l Plantation Labour Act, 1951.
l Mines Act, 1952.
l Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees’ (Conditions of Service and Misc. Provisions) Act, 1955.
l Merchant Shipping Act, 1958.
l Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961.
l Beedi & Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966.
l Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970.
l Sales Promotion Employees Act, 1976.
l Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979.
l Dock Workers (Safety, Health & Welfare) Act, 1986.
l Building & Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act, 1996.
IV. Laws related to Equality and Empowerment of Women such as:
l Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
l Equal Remuneration Act, 1976.
V. Laws related to Deprived and Disadvantaged Sections of the Society such as:
l Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976
l Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986
l Children (Pledging of Labour) Act, 1933
VI. Laws related to Social Security such as:
l Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923.
l Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948.
l Employees’ Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.
l Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.
