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About this act
- Jurisdiction
- Central
- Enactment date
- 2020-09-28
- Sections available
- 104
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1Short title, extent and commencement.→2Definitions.→3Works Committee.→4Grievance Redressal Committee.→5Registrar of Trade Unions.→6Criteria for registration.→7Provisions to be contained in constitution or rules of Trade Union.→8Application for registration, alteration of name and procedure thereof.→9Registration of Trade Union and cancellation thereof.→10Appeal against non-registration or cancellation of registration.→11Communication to Trade Union and change in its registration particulars.→12Incorporation of a registered Trade Union.→13Certain Acts not to apply to registered Trade Unions.→14Recognition of negotiating union or negotiating council.→15Objects of general fund, composition of separate fund and membership fee of Trade Union.→16Immunity from civil suit in certain cases.→17Criminal conspiracy in furtherance of objects of Trade Union.→18Enforceability of agreements.→19Right to inspect books of Trade Union.→20Rights of minor to membership of Trade Union.→21Disqualification of office-bearers of Trade Unions.→22Adjudication of disputes of Trade Unions.→23Proportion of office-bearers to be connected with industry.→24Change of name, amalgamation, notice of change and its effect.→25Dissolution.→26Annual returns.→27Recognition of Trade Unions at Central and State level.→28Application of this Chapter.→29Making of model standing orders by Central Government and temporary application.→30Preparation of draft standing orders by employer and procedure for certification.→31Certifying officers and appellate authority to have powers of civil court.→32Appeals.→33Date of operation of standing orders and its availability.→34Register of standing orders.→35Duration and modification of standing orders.→36Oral evidence in contradiction of standing orders not admissible.→37Interpretation, etc., of standing orders.→38Time limit for completing disciplinary proceedings and liability to pay subsistence allowance.→39Power to exempt.→40Notice of change.→41Power of appropriate Government to exempt.→42Voluntary reference of disputes to arbitration.→43Conciliation officers.→44Industrial Tribunal.→45Finality of constitution of Tribunal.→46National Industrial Tribunal.→47Decision of Tribunal or National Industrial Tribunal.→48Disqualifications for members of Tribunal and National Industrial Tribunal.→49Procedure and powers of arbitrator, conciliation officer, Tribunal and National Industrial Tribunal.→50Powers of Tribunal and National Industrial Tribunal to give appropriate relief in case of discharge or dismissal of worker.→51Transfer of pending cases.→52Adjustment of services of presiding officers under repealed Act.→53Conciliation and adjudication of dispute.→54Reference to and functions of National Industrial Tribunal.→55Form of award, its communication and commencement.→56Payment of full wages to worker pending proceedings in higher Courts.→57Persons on whom settlements and awards are binding.→58Period of operation of settlements and awards.→59Recovery of money due from employer.→60Commencement and conclusion of proceedings.→61Certain matters to be kept confidential.→62Prohibition of strikes and lock-outs.→63Illegal strikes and lock-outs.→64Prohibition of financial aid to illegal strikes or lock-outs.→65Application of sections 67 to 69.→66Definition of continuous service.→67Rights of workers laid-off for compensation, etc.→68Duty of an employer to maintain muster rolls of workers.→69Workers not entitled for compensation in certain cases.→70Conditions precedent to retrenchment of workers.→71Procedure for retrenchment.→72Re-employment of retrenched worker.→73Compensation to workers in case of transfer of establishment.→74Sixty days’ notice to be given of intention to close down any undertaking.→75Compensation to workers in case of closing down of undertakings.→76Effect of laws inconsistent with this Chapter.→77Application of this Chapter.→78Prohibition of lay-off.→79Conditions precedent to retrenchment of workers to which Chapter X applies.→80Procedure for closing down an industrial establishment.→81Duty of an employer to maintain muster rolls of workers.→82Certain provisions of Chapter IX to apply to industrial establishment to which this Chapter applies.→83Worker re-skilling fund.→84Prohibition of unfair labour practice.→85Power of officers of appropriate Government to impose penalty in certain cases.→86Penalties.→87Cognizance of offences.→88Offences by companies.→89Composition of offences.→90Conditions of service, etc., to remain unchanged under certain circumstances during pendency of proceedings.→91Special provision for adjudication as to whether conditions of service, etc., changed during pendency of proceedings.→92Power to transfer certain proceedings.→93Protection of persons.→94Representation of parties.→95Removal of doubts in interpretation of award or settlement.→96Power to exempt.→97Jurisdiction of civil courts barred.→98Protection of action taken in good faith.→99Power of appropriate Government to make rules.→100Delegation of powers.→101Power to amend Schedules.→102Amendment of Act 7 of 2017.→103Power to remove difficulties.→104Repeal and savings.→
Schedules
THE FIRST SCHEDULEOfficial attachment ↗THE SECOND SCHEDULEOfficial attachment ↗THE THIRD SCHEDULEOfficial attachment ↗
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