Dear All, I am handling Grievance Committee & Work Committees. Can anybody who is handling both committees explain to me what is the difference between both?
What kinds of thing comes under work committees?
What kinds of issues come under GRC?
From India, Neemrana
What kinds of thing comes under work committees?
What kinds of issues come under GRC?
From India, Neemrana
Dear Colleague,
In case of Work Committee, it is considered as an authority which has to be constituted with equal representatives from Trade Union and Management mainly to discuss and resolve any kind of INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE on matters of their common interest or concern and endeavour to compose any material difference of opinion in respect of such matters to ensure cordial Industrial Relations. Hence like a Conciliation Officer having powers to intervene this Internal WC is focusing to discuss and mutually resolve any kind of difference of opinion as first remedy in house as bipartie before it goes to any external concliation. It can be any matter of difference of opinion between employer and employee that might take a shape of INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. This commitee handles mostly the Collective Disputes Subjects. The interest of collective employees are handled here.
In Case of Grievance Committee it is handing INDIVIDUAL DISPUTE pertaining to any single workmen. Say for instance out of hundreds of workers the grievance may be relating to one single employee. Here the Grievance Settlement Authority who follows laid down procedure and try to settle the grievance in the shopfloor itself. If it fails then only it can be referred to external bodies.
Kindly have a reading:
CHAPTER II AUTHORITIES UNDER THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES ACT 1947:
3. Works Committee:- (1) In the case of any industrial establishment in which one hundred or more workmen are employed or have been employed on any day in the preceding twelve months, the appropriate Government may by general or special order require the employer to constitute in the prescribed manner a Works Committee consisting of representatives of employers and
workmen engaged in the establishment, so however that the number of representatives of workmen on the Committee shall not be less than the number of representatives of the employer.
The representatives of the workmen shall be chosen in the prescribed manner from among the workmen engaged in the establishment and in consultation with their trade union, if any, registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926 (16 of 1926).
(2) It shall be the duty of the Works Committee to promote measures for securing and preserving amity and good relations between the employer and workmen and, to that end, to comment upon matters of their common interest or concern and endeavour to compose any material difference of opinion in respect of such matters
3[CHAPTER II-B REFERENCE OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL DISPUTES TO GRIEVANCE
SETTLEMENT AUTHORITIES
9C. Setting up of Grievance Settlement Authorities and reference of certain individual disputes to such authorities.- (1) The employer in relation to every industrial establishment in which fifty or more workmen are employed or have been employed on any day in the preceding twelve months, shall provided for, in accordance with the rules made in that behalf under this Act, a Grievance
Settlement Authority for the settlement of industrial disputes connected with an individual workman employed in the establishment.
(2) Where an industrial dispute connected with an individual workman arises in an establishment referred to in sub-section (1), a workman or any trade union of workmen of which such workman is a member, refer, in such manner as may be prescribed such dispute to the Grievance Settlement Authority provided for by the employer under that sub-section for settlement.
(3) The Grievance Settlement Authority referred to in sub-section (1) shall follow such procedure and complete its proceedings within such period as may be prescribed.
(4) No reference shall be made under Chapter III with respect to any dispute referred to in this section unless such dispute has been referred to the Grievance Settlement Authority concerned and the decision of the Grievance Settlement Authority is not acceptable to any of the parties to the dispute
From India, Chennai
309In case of Work Committee, it is considered as an authority which has to be constituted with equal representatives from Trade Union and Management mainly to discuss and resolve any kind of INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE on matters of their common interest or concern and endeavour to compose any material difference of opinion in respect of such matters to ensure cordial Industrial Relations. Hence like a Conciliation Officer having powers to intervene this Internal WC is focusing to discuss and mutually resolve any kind of difference of opinion as first remedy in house as bipartie before it goes to any external concliation. It can be any matter of difference of opinion between employer and employee that might take a shape of INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. This commitee handles mostly the Collective Disputes Subjects. The interest of collective employees are handled here.
In Case of Grievance Committee it is handing INDIVIDUAL DISPUTE pertaining to any single workmen. Say for instance out of hundreds of workers the grievance may be relating to one single employee. Here the Grievance Settlement Authority who follows laid down procedure and try to settle the grievance in the shopfloor itself. If it fails then only it can be referred to external bodies.
Kindly have a reading:
CHAPTER II AUTHORITIES UNDER THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES ACT 1947:
3. Works Committee:- (1) In the case of any industrial establishment in which one hundred or more workmen are employed or have been employed on any day in the preceding twelve months, the appropriate Government may by general or special order require the employer to constitute in the prescribed manner a Works Committee consisting of representatives of employers and
workmen engaged in the establishment, so however that the number of representatives of workmen on the Committee shall not be less than the number of representatives of the employer.
The representatives of the workmen shall be chosen in the prescribed manner from among the workmen engaged in the establishment and in consultation with their trade union, if any, registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926 (16 of 1926).
(2) It shall be the duty of the Works Committee to promote measures for securing and preserving amity and good relations between the employer and workmen and, to that end, to comment upon matters of their common interest or concern and endeavour to compose any material difference of opinion in respect of such matters
3[CHAPTER II-B REFERENCE OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL DISPUTES TO GRIEVANCE
SETTLEMENT AUTHORITIES
9C. Setting up of Grievance Settlement Authorities and reference of certain individual disputes to such authorities.- (1) The employer in relation to every industrial establishment in which fifty or more workmen are employed or have been employed on any day in the preceding twelve months, shall provided for, in accordance with the rules made in that behalf under this Act, a Grievance
Settlement Authority for the settlement of industrial disputes connected with an individual workman employed in the establishment.
(2) Where an industrial dispute connected with an individual workman arises in an establishment referred to in sub-section (1), a workman or any trade union of workmen of which such workman is a member, refer, in such manner as may be prescribed such dispute to the Grievance Settlement Authority provided for by the employer under that sub-section for settlement.
(3) The Grievance Settlement Authority referred to in sub-section (1) shall follow such procedure and complete its proceedings within such period as may be prescribed.
(4) No reference shall be made under Chapter III with respect to any dispute referred to in this section unless such dispute has been referred to the Grievance Settlement Authority concerned and the decision of the Grievance Settlement Authority is not acceptable to any of the parties to the dispute
From India, Chennai
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