Briefly discuss prime objectives of different labour legislations with its type of interventions/ areas dealt with therein.

The Trade Unions Act, 1926 - The objective of this Act is to enable Workers of a number of small units to form and register trade unions, who can bargain wages and other conditions of work and also to define the law relating to registered trade unions. Trade unions are an important part of an industrial set up. The legislation regulating these trade unions is the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926. The Act deals with the registration of trade unions, their rights, their liabilities and responsibilities as well as ensures that their funds are utilized properly. It gives legal and corporate status to the registered trade unions. It also seeks to protect them from civil or criminal prosecution so that they could carry on their legitimate activities for the benefit of the working class. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 - The objective of this Act is to enable for the investigation and settlement industrial disputes on wages and the conciliation machinery to intervene. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 is the main legislation for investigation and settlement of all industrial disputes. The Act enumerates the contingencies when a strike or lock-out can be lawfully resorted to, when they can be declared illegal or unlawful, conditions for laying off, retrenching, discharging or dismissing a workman, circumstances under which an industrial unit can be closed down and several other matters related to industrial employees and employers. The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 - The objective of this Act is to assure equal wage to women for same or similar work and prevention of discrimination against women in employment. The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 - The objective of this Act is to regulate the manner of payment of wages to certain classes of persons and their realisation in case of non-payment. The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 was enacted to regulate payment of wages to workers employed in industries and to ensure speedy and effective remedy to them against illegal deductions and/or unjustified delay caused in paying wages in current coin, or currency notes or by cheque or by crediting in the bank account of the workers. The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 - The contractor is required to pay wages and in case of failure on the part of the contractor to pay wages either in part or in full, the Principal Employer is liable to pay the same. This Act is enacted to regulate employment of contract labour so as to place it at par with labour employed directly, with regard to the working conditions and certain other benefits. Contract labour refers to "the workers engaged by a contractor for the user enterprises". These workers are generally engaged in agricultural operations, plantation, construction industry, ports & docks, oil fields, factories, railways, shipping, airlines, road transport, etc. Minimum Wages Act, 1948 - The objective of this Act is to ensure payment of minimum wages to all types of workers including unskilled, semi- skilled and skilled.