Right of workmen laid off for compensation

Whenever a workman (other than a badli workman or a casual workman) whose name is borne on the muster rolls of an industrial establishment and who has completed not less than one year of continuous service under an employer is laid off, whether continuously or intermittently, he shall be paid by the employer for all days during which he is so laid off, except for such weekly holidays as may intervene, compensation which shall be equal to fifty per cent. of the total of the basic wages and dearness allowance that would have been payable to him had he not been so laid off: Provided that if during any period of twelve months, a workman is so laid off for more than forty-five days, no such compensation shall be payable in respect of any period of the lay off after the expiry of the first forty-five days: Provided further that it shall be lawful for the employer in any case falling with the foregoing proviso to terminate the workman in accordance with the provisions contained in section 25 ZA at any time after the expiry of the first forty-five days of the lay-off and when he does so, any compensation paid to the workman for having been laid off during the preceding twelve months may be set off against the compensation payable for termination.