THE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT (STANDING ORDERS) ACT, 1946
The Industrial Employment Standing Orders Act
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This Act requires employers in industrial establishments to define the conditions of employment of their workers in standing orders and have them certified. Employers submit draft standing orders to a Certifying Officer, who certifies them after hearing the workers, with a right of appeal. Certified standing orders must be posted, can be modified only in set ways, and workers suspended pending inquiry receive a subsistence allowance.
- 1. Short title, extent and application
- 2. Interpretation
- 3. Submission of draft standing orders
- 4. Conditions for certification of standing orders
- 5. Certification of standing orders
- 6. Appeals
- 7. Date of operation of standing orders
- 8. Register of standing orders
- 9. Posting of standing orders
- 10. Duration and modification of standing orders
- 10A. Payment of subsistence allowance
- 11. Certifying Officers and appellate authorities to have powers of civil court
- 12. Oral evidence in contradiction of standing orders not admissible
- 12A. Temporary application of model standing orders
- 13. Penalties and procedure
- 13A. Interpretation, etc., of standing orders
- 13B. Act not to apply to certain industrial establishments
- 14. Power to exempt
- 14A. Delegation of powers
- 15. Power to make rules
- I. MATTERS TO BE PROVIDED IN STANDING ORDER UNDER THIS ACT
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