8.3 The Central Level Labour Advisory Committee

The tripartite apex (the social dialogue's institutional peak): the composition — the government + the national workers' and employers' organisations (the tripartite principle domesticated — the ILO's mirror). The functions: The labour policy's advice (the policy's formulation-and-review; the standards' direction); The legislation's consultation (the bills-and-amendments' tripartite examination — the social partners' voice in the law's making); The major disputes' tripartite treatment (the national-significance disputes' advice-and- mediation); The ILO-reporting's consultation (the conventions' implementation's review); The coordination's forum (the labour administration's-and-the-social-partners' standing dialogue). The enterprise-and-industry-level companions: the industrial-relations committees (the bipartite-plus joint forums — the disputes' prevention-and-in-house settlement; the welfare's joint management) — the advisory pyramid from the workplace to the centre. Exam Focus Long questions: (i) The labour administration's pyramid — the Department, the offices, the inspectors (with the powers' list); (ii) The Labour Court — the composition's design and the jurisdiction's catalogue; (iii) The Central Level Labour Advisory Committee — the tripartite composition and the functions. Short questions: the conciliation's gateway; the inspector's prohibition power; the High Court appeal; the tripartite principle. Trick areas: (i) The conciliation (labour office) precedes the adjudication (Labour Court) — the exhaustion's discipline of Unit 5; (ii) The Labour Court is a SPECIALISED court — the district court's ordinary jurisdiction yields; (iii) The Advisory Committee ADVISES — it does not adjudicate (the policy organ, not…