Presentation on

Industrial Law, Compliance, and ISO

By group four:
TE-18018 - Md. Ashif Mahmud Pranto
TE-18019 - Alauddin Ahmed
TE-18020 - Adip Al-amin
TE-18022 - Mahzabin Ritu
TE-18023 - Md. Shahriar
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Industrial Law
Industrial law relates to the laws governing industries.
Industrial
laws cover wide range of legal topics, from labor laws to industrial relations, and
environmental concerns etc.
Industrial laws vary widely for each is as unique as the business to which it relates.

Industrial Compliance
Compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law.
Regulatory compliance means adherence to standards, regulations, and other requirements.
Environmental compliance means conforming to environmental laws, regulations, standards,
and other requirements.
Compliance ensures that the industry is aware of and takes steps to comply with
relevant laws, policies, and regulations.
Due to the increasing number of regulations and need for operational transparency,
organizations are increasingly adopting the use of uniform sets of compliance controls.
This approach is used to ensure that all necessary governance requirements can be met.
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Industries keep compliance data belonging or pertaining to the industry or included in

the law, which can be used for the purpose of implementing or validating compliance.
Compliance software is increasingly being implemented to help industries manage their
compliance data more efficiently.
Compliance varies not only by industry but often by location.
The industrial structures in one country, for example, may be similar but with particular
differences with another country.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and its ISO 19600 standard is
one of the primary international standards for how industries handle compliance.
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Labor Law

Labor law, also known as employment law mediates the relationship between workers,
employing entities, trade unions and the government.
Collective labor law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, employer, and
union.
Individual labor law concerns employees' rights at work.
Employment standards are social norms for the minimum socially acceptable conditions
under which employees or contractors are allowed to work.
Government agencies enforce labor law.
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Employment Terms
Rights and obligations of the worker and the employer are mediated through a contract
of employment.
Many contract terms and conditions are covered by legislation or common law.

For example, employment to be "at-will", meaning the employer can terminate an

employee, and, an employee may quit at any time.
There are two types of workers, independent contractors, and employees. If a worker is
provided tools and resources, closely supervised, paid regularly, etc., then he or she is
considered an employee of the company.
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Employment terms are the written particulars of employment with the essential. This aims to
allow the employee to know concretely what to expect and what is expected.
Itcovers items including compensation, holiday, and illness rights, notice in the event of
dismissal and job description.

An employer may not legally offer a contract that pays the worker less than a minimum wage.
An employee may not agree to a contract that allows an employer to dismiss them for illegal
reasons.
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Minimum wage

It is the minimum amount that a worker can be paid per hour.
The minimum wage is set usually higher than the lowest wage as determined by the forces
of supply and demand in a free market and therefore acts as a price floor.
Each country sets its own minimum wage laws and regulations.
While a majority of industrialized countries has a minimum wage, many developing
countries do not.
National minimum wage laws were first introduced in the United States of America in 1938,
and in India in 1948.
In Bangladesh, minimum wage for garment workers is 8,000 Taka.
The living wage is higher than the minimum wage and is designed that a full-time worker
would be able to support themselves and a small family at that wage.
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Working Hour
It
is the maximum number of hours worked per day or other time intervals are set by law in
many countries.
Such laws also control whether workers who work longer hours must be paid additional
compensation.

According to Bangladesh Labor Act -

 Working hours for adolescent:

1. No adolescent shall be required or allowed to work in any factory or mine, for more than
five hours in any day and thirty hours in any week.

2. No adolescent shall be allowed to work in any other establishment, for more than seven
hours in a day and forty-two hours in a week.

3. No adolescent shall be allowed to work in any establishment between the hours of 7.00
p.m. and 7.00 a.m.
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 Working hours for adult:

1. No adult worker shall ordinarily be required or allowed to work in an establishment for

more than eight hours in any day. (without exception)

2. No adult worker shall ordinarily be required or allowed to work in an establishment for

more than forty-eight hours in any week. (without exception)
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Health and Hygiene

Laws regarding health and hygiene are concerned with:

1. Cleanliness.
2. Ventilation and temperature.
3. Dust and fume.
4. Disposal of wastes and effluents.
5. Artificial humidification.
6. Overcrowding.
7. Lighting.
8. Drinking water.
9. Latrines and urinals.
10. Dust bin and spittoon.
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Some labor laws involve safety of workers which are:

1. Standard protection from radio frequency electromagnetic fields:  in European Union the
limit is: 0 Hz to 300 GHz
2. EMF medical devices: in United States of America the limit is: 3 kHz to 300 GHz
3. Laser protection standard
4. Protection from dangerous substances and preparations
5. Welding safety
6. Vibration safety
7. Noise safety
8. Ultrasound safety
9. Air content
10. Thermal environment
11. Nanotechnology safety
12. Artificial light on workplace
13. Hazardous Area
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Discrimination
There are laws prohibiting discrimination against employees as morally unacceptable and
illegal, in particular racial discrimination or gender discrimination.

Dismissal
Convention no. 158 of the International Labor Organization states that,
an employee "can't be fired without any legitimate motive" and "before offering him the
possibility to defend himself".
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Child Labor
Childlabor can be factory work, mining or quarrying, agriculture, helping in the parents'
business, operating a small business (such as selling food), or doing odd jobs.
Children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops
and restaurants where they may also work.
Other children do jobs such as assembling boxes or polishing shoes.
However, rather than in factories and sweatshops, most child labor in the twenty-first century
occurs in the informal sector, selling on the street, at work in agriculture or hidden away in
houses.
 According to Bangladesh Labor Act -
1. No child shall be employed or permitted to work in any occupation or establishment.
2. No adolescent shall be employed or permitted to work in any occupation or establishment,
unless- a certificate of fitness is granted to him by a registered medical practitioner.
 
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Environmental law

Environmental law is a collective term encompassing aspects of the law that provide protection
to the environment.
 

Pollution Control
Pollution control is concerned with: 
Air
quality
Water quality
Waste management
Contaminant cleanup
Chemical safety

Environmental Impact Assessment

It includes: 

Water resources
Mineral resources
Forest and wildlife
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Industrial relations

Industrial relations or employment relations is the multidisciplinary academic field that

studies the employment relationship.
This is sometimes seen as paralleling a trend in the separate but related discipline of human
resource management.
In recent times, industrial relations has been in decline as a field, with the increasing
preference of human resource management.
Industrial relations is part of the social sciences.
Industrialrelations assumes that labor markets are not perfectly competitive and thus,
employers typically have greater bargaining power than employees.
Industrial relations also assumes that there are at least some inherent conflicts of interest
between employers and employees; for example, higher wages versus higher profits, and thus,
conflict is seen as a natural part of the employment relationship.
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ISO
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-
setting body.
An International Standard is a document containing practical information and best practice.
It often describes an agreed way of doing something or a solution to a global problem.
It is an independent, non-governmental organization. 
It is world's largest developer of voluntary international standards.
ISO works for worldwide proprietary, industrial, and commercial standards.
It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and works in 164 countries.
164 member represent 164 countries.
ISO is not for profit; selling standards allows to finance development, to maintain them and
to make new ones.
ISO has produced 22500+ standards covering everything from manufactured products and
technology to food safety, agriculture, and healthcare.
It produces 100 new standards each month.
The three official languages of the ISO are English, French, and Russian.
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History of ISO

Itbegan in the 1926 as the International Federation of the National Standardizing

Associations, ISA.
ISA was suspended in 1942 during World War II.
It began operations in February 1947 as International Organization for Standardization.

Structure of ISO

Members meet annually at a General Assembly to discuss the strategic objectives of ISO.
The organization is coordinated by a central secretariat based in Geneva.
A councilwith a rotating membership of 20 member bodies provides guidance and
governance, setting annual budget.
The technical management board is responsible for more than 249 technical committees.
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Membership of ISO

ISO has three membership categories:

1. ISO member countries with a national standards body and ISO voting rights
2. Correspondent members are countries without a national standards body
3. Subscriber members are countries with small economies
Participating members are called "P" members, and observing members are called "O"
members.
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Financing
ISO is funded by a combination of:
1. Organizations that manage the specific projects or loan experts.
2. Subscriptions from member bodies.
3. Sale of standards.

ISO Publications
1. International Standards – main product of ISO
2. Technical Reports – reference and explanation
3. Technical Specifications – intermediate specification, published prior to a standard
4. Technical Corrigenda – amendments made to standards due to flaw, improvement, and
extension
5. ISO Guides – drafting standards, standardization principles
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Standardization Process

Standardization is a long process that commonly starts with the proposal of new work within a
committee.
International Standards are developed by ISO technical committees (TC) and
subcommittees (SC) by a process with six steps:

 Stage 1: Proposal stage

 Stage 2: Preparatory stage
 Stage 3: Committee stage
 Stage 4: Inquiry stage
 Stage 5: Approval stage
 Stage 6: Publication stage

Example: New Proposal  Working Draft  Committee Draft   Final Committee Draft
 Draft International Standard Final Draft International Standard 
International Standard 
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Products named after ISO

1. Disk images end in the file extension "ISO" to signify that they are using

the ISO 9660 standard file system.

2. The sensitivity of a photographic film to light (its "film speed") is described

by ISO 6, ISO 2240, and ISO 5800 etc.

3. The flash hot shoe found on cameras often is called the "ISO shoe".

4. ISOBUS is a standard for communication protocol for the agriculture industry.

5. ISOFIX is a standard for child safety seats in passenger cars.

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Benefits of International Standards

Become more competitive by offering products and services that are accepted globally ∙

Enter new markets easily.

Raise profits by offering products with increased quality, compatibility, safety, reliability.

Reduce costs by not reinventing and using available resources better.

Make it easier for countries to outsource and specialize.

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 Make products compatible, so they fit and work well with each other.

Facilitates world trade.

Increases productivity while minimizing errors and waste.

Standardization to practically address global challenges like climate change and

sustainability.
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Source:
Labor Law
Workplace Safety Standards
Environmental Law
Compliance
Environmental Compliance
Industrial Relations
ISO – Official
Wikipedia - ISO
A Handbook on Bangladesh Labor Act, 2006