Where any worker in an industrial establishment who is a citizen of India, is to be retrenched and he belongs to a particular category of workers in that establishment, then, in the absence of any agreement between the employer and the worker in this behalf, the employer shall ordinarily retrench the worker who was the last person to be employed in that category, unless for reasons to be recorded the employer retrenches any other worker.
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Section 1 · Short title, extent and commencement.Section 2 · Definitions.Section 3 · Works Committee.Section 4 · Grievance Redressal Committee.Section 5 · Registrar of Trade Unions.Section 6 · Criteria for registration.Section 7 · Provisions to be contained in constitution or rules of Trade Union.Section 8 · Application for registration, alteration of name and procedure thereof.India Code, Government of India. Text fetched 24 Oct 2026. Check the linked official text and subsequent notifications when applying a provision.