Dear Shilpa,
I read every post in last these three pages. Amazing knowledge sharing.
Regarding you question, you said, that you're a fresher.
Shilpa, none of us were tought how to fill the ESI and PF challans after completing MBA or how to handle labour law inspector when he surveys one of our branches and find non-compliance. We all have learnt this on the job. Books or another course won't help you.
One really can help is your labour law/legal advisor or your immediate boss and alas all of us here at citehr.
Regarding Industrial Relations, you should start working on few of the important Acts which are:
1. Shops and Commercial Establishments Act / Indian Factories Act (as applicable in your case whether it's a manufacturing concern or an office)
2. Employee State Insurance Act
3. Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act
These three are the main Acts, which every HR fraternity goes through almost daily. Thus, a thorough knowledge of these Acts will help you a lot.
Spend sometime on these websites
www.epfindia.org
www.esic.nic.in
Dont just visit these visit, search for every single word on these two websites which comes into your mind related to the mentioned laws.
Take some printouts of Forms, read the instructions carefully..every form has brief information about it which can be even understood by any layman.
Alternatively, when you're free start making some notes on a particular Act. What'll more help you is the definitions of the important terms, say definition of employee, employer, wages, factory, establishment etc. These are the main learnings.
Also, keep an eye on the updates or any notifications passed on a particular Act like Minimum Wages Act, where a notification is released twice a year stating minimum wages for the next six months of the year.
To make you comfortable, we may say IR is not rocket science.
warm regards,
Umesh Chaudhary
(welcomeumesh@yahoo.com)