1.   Companies hit by labour disputes were to be granted emergency loans and allowed to postpone tax repayments for up to nine months.

2.   Moreover, where labour disputes in small enterprises might cause little stir, stoppages in major plants proved highly contagious.

3.   It is conclusive evidence that this is much more than a labour dispute.

4.   CHINA Motor Bus may stand to lose its franchise, which runs out in August next year, because of its present labour dispute.

5.   Karnataka still enjoys definite advantages in terms of a rich human resource pool, least labour disputes and a comfortable law and order situation.

6.   Meanwhile, industry workers and trade unionists have warned the government compensation package for the poultry industry is incomplete and likely to spark labour disputes.

7.   No one could resist such a popular demand for a free holiday for employees because any move against the request might have resulted in a labour dispute.

8.   Trairong said the panel would monitor possible labour disputes and would move in in time to seek compromises before the disputes escalated into violence by workers.

9.   Trairong Suwankhiri, the labour minister, similarly is a character not good at finding easy solutions to labour disputes.

10.   He indicated that he would be willing to intervene in labour disputes and invited employers to visit him and discuss industrial deadlocks.