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Objectives
- To provide a machinery for peaceful resolution of disputes and to promote harmonious relation between employers and workers.

Scope and coverage
- Applicable to all industrial and commercial establishments

- Covers all workers and supervisors drawing salaries up to Rs. 1600/- per month.

- Not a applicable to person employed in managerial and administrative capacities.

Main provisions
- Defines industry, industrial dispute, layoff, lockout, retrenchment, trade union, strike, wages. workman, etc.

- Provides machinery for investigating and settling disputes through works committees, conciliation officers, boards of conciliation, courts of enquiry, labour courts, tribunals and voluntary arbitration.

- Reference of dispute for adjudication.

- Awards of labour courts and tribunals.

- Payment of wages to workers pending proceedings in High Courts.

- Rights of appeal.

- Settlements in outside conciliation.

- Notice of change in employment conditions.

- Protection of workmen during pendency of proceedings

- Strike and lock-out procedures.

- Lay-off compensation.

- Retrenchment compensation.

- Proceedings for retrenchment.

- Compensation to workmen in case of transfer of undertakings.

- Closure procedures.

- Reopening of closed undertakings.

- Unfair labour practices.

- Recovery of money due from employer.

- Penalties.

- Obligations and rights of employees.

When to consult and refer
- When a dispute arises with the workers' union.

- When you plan changes in employment conditions.

- When there is a strike.

- When there is a lock-out.

- When retrenchment of workmen.

- When undertaking is being transferred

- On closure of an establishment.

- On re-opening establishment.