History Of Labour Law

What are labour rights?
Labour rights area group of legal rights related to labourers. These rights focus on claimed human rights and the relationship of laborers with their employees. Labour rights are related to workers’ pay, safe working conditions and benefits related to workers.
Labour laws have been an important part of the constituency since the Industrial Revolution and developed the most in the 19th and the 20th centuries. The labour laws are also a necessity for the social and economic development.
History of labour laws:
In the earlier times, the laborers were exploited. There were not given pay according to their work done nor were they protected. The major problem faced by the laborers was the problem of wages. The laborers were not provided with a better place to work and they were not given the respect they deserved. The state of labour law can be considered as the difference in interests of the different societies. The employers didn’t want the labourers to earn more and the employees demanded the price, conditions and status of what they work for.
England being the first country to start industrialization it also started up with the foundation of modern labour law. The often appalling consequence of capitalist exploitation was the problem of the labour and the reason was the totally unregulated economic framework. The modern labour law started in England in the late of 18th century and continued till the mid of 19th century.
Carl Marx in his theory gave a prediction for the social system. He told that the workers will revolt against the capitalist and will develop a classless society. Though his theory didn’t prove to be correct, as the capitalist in England already made provisions for the labour law and its pro...

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... thus one such law brought up by the government in order to give proper wages and proper protection to the labour class of the society. It is a right enjoyed by them as the right to labourers is also recognized in the Constitution of India under Article 16.

SUBSTAINTIATION WITH CASES

In the case of Ravi Shankar Sharma vs. State of Rajasthan Court stating the importance of Factories Act stated that it is a social legislation and it provides for the health, safety, welfare and other aspects of the workers in the factories. The objective behind enactment of the Factories Act was primarily the protection of workers employed in the factory against the hazards happening in the factories i.e. industrial and occupational.
Piece rate workers are also governed by the Factories Act, but they should be regular workers and should not come to work according to their wishes.