Objectives of labour laws are as follows:
- To protect the workers from profit-seeking exploiters.
- To ensure that the service conditions should be clearly spelled out by employer to the employee.
- To improve and regulate the working condition of workers employed in different factories and establishments.
- To make statutory provisions for the regular training of a certain number of apprentices in different trades.
- To ensure that the employees are paid their wages on fixed dates and there should be no deduction made from the wages.
- To promote cordial industrial relations and industrial peace between employers and employees.
- To preserve the health, safety, and welfare of workers.
- To protect the interests of women and children working in the factories.
- To maintain the dignity of employees in the organisation.
- To provide protection for the weaker section.
- To provide the rights of collective bargaining to the employee.
- To provide the appropriate machinery to the employees for the purpose of controlling pollution in the working area.