LAW5606 Labour Law — Unit 8: Authorities

Unit 8: Authorities

8.1 Labour Department and Labour Office and Their Power and Functions

1. The Department of Labour (the Ministry’s technical arm): the policy’s implementation; the labour offices’ direction; the inspection system’s management; the disputes’ oversight; the statistics-and-research; the migrant-labour interface (the Foreign Employment Department’s sibling).
2. The Labour Offices (the field machinery): the appointment’s registration (the hiring’s notification); the disputes’ conciliation (U7.2’s forum); the workplace’s monitoring (the standards’ enforcement); the welfare’s supervision (the funds’ oversight); the certificates (the job-change’s clearance faces).

8.2 Labour Officers and Factory Inspectors and Their Powers and Functions

The inspectorate’s powers: the entry-and-inspection (the workplace’s access — the safety’s-and-standards’ check); the records’ examination (the registers, the wage-books); the samples-and-tests (the hazardous-materials faces); the improvement-and-prohibition notices (the violations’ orders — the danger’s immediate stop); the prosecutions (the offences’ initiation); the accident inquiries (the dangerous occurrences’ investigation). The officer’s character: the quasi-judicial faces (the conciliation-and-orders — the natural-justice duty of the Administrative Law course); the impartiality’s discipline (the both-sides’ servant — the labour-and-management’s balance).

8.3 Industrial Relations Committee, National Labour Advisory Committee

1. The Industrial Relations Committee (the enterprise-or-industry level): the bipartite-plus faces (the workers’-and-management’s joint forum — the disputes’ prevention-and-in-house settlement; the welfare’s joint management).
2. The National Labour Advisory Committee (the tripartite apex): the composition (the government + the national workers’-and-employers’ organisations); the functions (the labour policy’s advice; the legislation’s consultation; the major disputes’ tripartite treatment; the ILO-reporting’s consultation) — the social dialogue’s institutional peak (the ILO’s tripartite principle domesticated).

Model Questions

1. Describe the labour administration’s structure in Nepal. (10)
2. What powers do labour officers and inspectors exercise? (10)
3. Explain the advisory-and-relations committees’ roles. (10)

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