A Study on the Factors Influencing Industrial Disputes in Cotton Industry of Telangana- With Special Reference to Hyderabad

Abstract

The Industrial Disputes Act is such an act in which disputes, provide elaborate machinery to resolve the disputes between the workers and management. Poor industrial relations often become to industrial unrest/ disputes. They provide in the form of go-slow, disagree, bandh, strikes, lockouts, etc. The most common consequences of industrial disputes or loss of production, loss of profit, and even closure of units. The term of ‘industrial dispute’ means “any dispute or difference between employers’ employers or between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment and conditions of employment of any person” Causes of industrial disputes can be divided into economic and non-economic. Economic causes of industrial disputes are wages, employee dismissal and retrenchment, bonus, working conditions and hours of works and other reasons of disputes which includes medical, educational facilities, housing allowances for the workers is also a cause of dispute. Wages have been the major economic reason causing industrial disputes. Non- economic causes of industrial disputes are non-recognition of unions, poor leadership, political leadership, partial treatment by superiors, political environment and absence of grievance redress procedure and other reasons which are causing disputes.