Question

The ongoing globalization in the country needs reforms in our labour laws. Which of the following forcesoppose changes in the existing labour legislations?
(A) Government
(B) Labour and Trade Unions
(C) Employers’ Associations
(D) Human Rights’ Commission

Answer 1

Labor And Trade Unions

Explanation:

• Trade union, also called labor union, association of workers in a very particular trade, industry, or company created for the aim of securing improvements in pay, benefits, working conditions, or social and political status through negotiation.
• Labor unions or trade unions are organizations formed by workers from related fields that employment for the common interest of its members.
• They assist workers in issues like fairness of pay, good working environment, hours of labor and benefits.
• They represent a cluster of workers and supply a link between the management and workers.
• The purpose of those unions is to seem into the grievances of wagers and present a collective voice before of the management.
• Hence, it acts as a medium of communication between the workers and management.
• Regulation of relations, settlement of grievances, raising new demands on behalf of workers, negotiations are the opposite key principle functions that these trade unions perform.
• Over the years trade unions are criticized as agents who, in pursuit of their own interests, (improving wages and dealing conditions, establishing more permanent employment), often oppose measures taken under labor market deregulation and liberalization policies which could undermine these objectives.

Hence, labor and trade unions force oppose changes in labor legislations.