Labor Laws can be classified as follows:

Laws Related to Industrial Relations such as,

Trade Unions Act, 1926

Industrial Employment Standing Order Act, 1946

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947

Law related to Wages, such as,

Payment of Wages Act, 1936

Minimum Wages Act, 1948

Payment of Bonus Act, 1965

Working Journalists (Fixation of rates of wages) Act, 1958

Laws related to working hours, conditions of service and employment such as,

Factories Act, 1948

Plantation Labor Act, 1951

Mines Act, 1952

Working Journalists and Other newspaper Employees (Conditions of services and Misc. provisions) Act, 1955

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958

Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961

Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966

Contract Labor (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970

Sales Promotion Employees Act, 1976

Interstate migrant workmen (regulation and employment and conditions of service) Act, 1979

Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986

Building and other construction workers (Regulation of employment and conditions of service) Act, 1996

Building and other construction workers Welfare Cess Act, 1996

Cine Workers & Cinema theatre workers (regulation of employment) Act, 1981

Dangerous machines (regulation) Act, 1983

Dock Workers(regulation of employment) Act, 1948

Dock Workers (regulations of employment) Act, (Inapplicability to major ports) Act, 1997

Employment of manual scavengers and construction of Dry latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993

Industrial employment (standing orders), Act, 1946

Mines and