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The Chhattisgarh Industrial Relations Act, 1960

The Chhattisgarh Industrial Relations Act, 1960

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The Madhya Pradesh Industrial Relations Act, 1960 (as adapted in Chhattisgarh) provides a structured legal framework to regulate relationships between employers and employees, resolve industrial disputes, and maintain industrial peace. It governs workplace terms, standing orders, changes in service conditions, collective bargaining, and strike or lock-out protocols across notified industries and undertakings. The Act establishes institutional machinery including Labour Officers, Conciliators, Labour Courts, and an Industrial Court to resolve disputes and enforce employment rights. For an ordinary citizen or worker, this law safeguards employment security, prohibits arbitrary dismissal, mandates fair conciliation and adjudication timelines, and ensures recognized union representation.

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  1. 0. Preamble
  2. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  3. 2. Definition
  4. 3. Commissioner of Labour
  5. 4. Conciliator
  6. 5. Appointment of Registrar and Assistant Registrar
  7. 6. Labour Officers and Deputy Labour Officers
  8. 7. Powers of supervision of Commissioner of Labour
  9. 8. Labour Courts
  10. 9. Industrial Court
  11. 11. Board of Arbitration
  12. 12. Finality of order constituting Labour Court, Industrial Court or Board
  13. 13. Application for recognition as a Representative Union
  14. 14. Conditions of recognition
  15. 15. Registrar of Representative Unions
  16. 16. Cancellation of recognition
  17. 17. Recognition of another union in place of existing Representative Union
  18. 18. Application for re-recognition
  19. 19. Dismissal of certain application for want of prosecution
  20. 20. Liability of union or members not relieved by cancellation
  21. 21. Periodical returns to be submitted to Registrar
  22. 22. Appeal to Industrial Court from order of Registrar cancelling recognition
  23. 23. Legal aid to approved Union at Government expenses in important proceedings
  24. 24. Recognition of combination of employers as association of employers
  25. 25. Appearance on behalf of employers
  26. 26. Appearance on behalf of employees
  27. 27. Representation of employees
  28. 28. Appearance by legal practitioner
  29. 30. Powers and duties of Labour Officer
  30. 31. Notice of change
  31. 32. Notice of change when to be deemed general notice
  32. 33. Agreements
  33. 34. Illegal change
  34. 35. Employer to make change etc. within certain time
  35. 36. Constitution of Joint Committees
  36. 37. Duties of the Joint Committees
  37. 38. Procedure of Joint Committee
  38. 39. Report of dispute
  39. 40. Commencement of conciliation proceedings
  40. 41. Conciliation proceeding
  41. 42. Power of Chief Conciliator to intervene
  42. 43. Settlement and report
  43. 44. Procedure and powers of Conciliator
  44. 45. Time limit for conciliation proceedings
  45. 46. Completion of conciliation proceeding
  46. 47. Conciliation proceedings, not be commenced or continued in certain cases
  47. 48. Conciliation proceeding discontinued deemed to be completed
  48. 49. Submission
  49. 50. Submission when revocable
  50. 51. Reference of disputes to Labour Court, Industrial Court or Board
  51. 52. Reference to arbitration by unions
  52. 53. Bar of application of Arbitration Act of 1940
  53. 54. Procedure of arbitration proceeding
  54. 55. Arbitration to be concluded expeditiously
  55. 56. Award by arbitrator
  56. 57. Chairman to decide in case of disagreement
  57. 58. Awards
  58. 59. Commencement of Award
  59. 60. Award on whom binding
  60. 61. Powers of Labour Court
  61. 62. Commencement of proceedings
  62. 63. Cognizance of offence
  63. 64. Power of Labour Court and Industrial Court in respect of criminal case
  64. 65. Appeal
  65. 67. Powers of superintendence of Industrial Court
  66. 68. Duties of Industrial Court
  67. 69. Cancellation of recognition of Unions
  68. 70. Reference on point of Law or interpretation of Act and rules
  69. 71. Review
  70. 72. Procedure before a Labour Court, the Industrial Court or a Board
  71. 73. Power of authority to summon witnesses etc.
  72. 74. Appearance of officers of Government in any proceeding
  73. 75. Costs
  74. 76. Proceeding before a Labour Court, etc. to be judicial proceeding
  75. 77. Parties on whom orders of Board, etc. binding
  76. 78. Finality of decisions
  77. 79. Court of Enquiry constitution, powers and duties of
  78. 80. Illegal strikes and lock-outs
  79. 81. Closure or stoppage of work in certain circumstances illegal
  80. 82. Reference to Industrial Court for declaration whether strike, closure or stoppage in illegal
  81. 83. Employer not to dismiss, reduce or punish an employee
  82. 84. Protection to employees in certain cases
  83. 85. Power of Court to order reinstatement etc.
  84. 86. Penalty for wrongful dismissal etc., of an employee
  85. 87. Penalty for illegal lock-out or illegal closure
  86. 88. Penalty for commencing illegal strike or illegal stoppage
  87. 89. Penalty for instigating etc., illegal strikes, lock-outs, closure or stoppage
  88. 90. Penalty for disclosing confidential information
  89. 91. Penalty for illegal change
  90. 92. Penalty for obstructing persons from carrying out duties
  91. 93. Penalties for offences not provided for elsewhere
  92. 94. Record of industrial matters etc.
  93. 95. Enquiry for verification of records
  94. 96. Amendment of Schedules
  95. 97. Agreements etc. on whom binding
  96. 98. Order, decision or award to be in terms of agreement between employer and Representative Union
  97. 99. Agreement etc., when to cease to have effect
  98. 100. Modification of award
  99. 101. Grant of copies of agreement, etc.
  100. 102. Liability of the executive of the Union
  101. 103. Certain officers to be public servants
  102. 104. Contempt of Board, Industrial Court, and Labour Court relating to omission to produce documents, etc.
  103. 105. Other kinds of contempt of Board, Industrial Court and Labour Court
  104. 106. Powers of Industrial Court, etc., to decide all matters
  105. 107. Powers of a Board Industrial Court etc. to pass interim orders
  106. 108. Recovery of amount due under the Act
  107. 109. Protection of action taken under the Act
  108. 110. Saving of certain provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act
  109. 111. Rules—(1) The State Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the
  110. 112. Repeal and Savings—The Central Provinces and Berar Industrial Disputes Settlement Act, 1947 (XXIII of 1947) and the Madhya Bharat Industrial Relations (Adaptation) Act, Samvat 2006 (31 of 1949) are hereby repealed;

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