law: Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
  3. Works Committee
  (1) In the case of any industrial establishment in which one
  
  hundred or more workmen are employed or have been employed on any day in the
  
  preceding twelve months, the appropriate government may by general or special
  
  order require the employer to constitute in the prescribed manner a Works
  
  Committee consisting of representatives of employers and workmen engaged in the
  
  establishment, so however that the number of representatives of workmen on the
  
  Committee shall not be less than the number of representatives of the employer.
  
  The representatives of the workmen shall be chosen in the prescribed manner from
  
  among the workmen engaged in the establishment and in consultation with their
  
  trade union, if any, registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926 (16 of
  
  1926).
  (2) It shall be the duty of the Works Committee to promote
  
  measures for securing and preserving amity and good relations between the
  
  employer and workmen and, to that end, to comment upon matters of their common
  
  interest or concern and endeavor to compose any material difference of opinion
  
  in respect of such matters.