Industrial Relations

Chapter 9: Industrial Dispute

Chapter Contents:
 Meaning of Industrial Dispute
 Causes of Industrial Dispute
 Forms of Industrial Dispute
 Industrial Dispute Settlement Machinery
Meaning of Industrial Dispute
An industrial dispute may be defined as a conflict or difference of
opinion between management and workers on the terms of
employment. It is a disagreement between an employer and
employees' representative; usually a trade union, over pay and other
working conditions and can result in industrial actions.
According to Bangladesh Labour Law 2006 section 2 (Lxii), ‘industrial
dispute’ means any dispute or difference between employers and
employers or between employers and workers or between workers and
workers which is connected with the employment or non-employment
or the terms of employment or the conditions of work of any person.
Cause of Industrial Dispute
Economic Causes:
Wages, Bonus, allowances, and conditions for work, working hours,
leave and holidays without pay, unjust layoffs and retrenchments.

Non-Economic Causes:
unfair treatment to workers, employers’ attitude towards workers,
sympathetic strikes, political factors, indiscipline at workplace and
rumor.
Forms of Industrial Dispute:
1. Strike
 Stay-in, sit-down, pen-down strike
 Go-slow
 Sympathetic strike
 Hunger strike
 Lightning or wildcat strike
 Work-to-rule
2. Lockout
3. Gherao
 Industrial Dispute Settlement Machinery
Dispute Arises

Bipartite Process

Success Failure
Memorandum of Settlement

Conciliation

Success Failure
Memorandum of Settlement

Labour Court
Arbitration Strike or Lock-out
Appellate Tribunal