Practical Guide to Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act and Rules

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Description
The Industrial Employment (standing Orders) Act, 1946 is the First Central enactment with an object to have Uniform Standing Orders  providing for matters enumerated in the Schedule to the Act. The employers are required to define, with certainty, conditions of service in their establishments to reduce them in writing and to get them certified with a view to avoid unnecessary industrial disputes. it was not intended that their should be different conditions of service for those who are employed before and those employed after Standing Orders came in to force. Once the Standing Orders come in to force,they bind all those Presently in employment of Concerned establishment as well as those who are appointed therafter. The employer cannot enter into an agreement with a terms of the Standing Orders would prevail over the corresponding terms in the contract of service. The employer cannot enforce  simultaneously the Standing Orders regulating the classification of workmen and a special agreement with an individual workman seling his categorisation.
An employer, who fails to submit draft Standing Orders as reqired by section 3 or who modifies his Standing Orders otherwise than in accordance with section 10, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, and in the case of a continuing offence with a further fine which may extra to two hundred rupees for every day after the first during which the offence continues.
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contents
Chapter 1 : Standing Orders
Chapter 2 : Important Clarifications under Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
Chapter 3 : Guidelines for Drafting of Standing Orders
Chapter 4 : Draft Standing Orders for Submission of Certification
The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Central Rules, 1946
Schedule I - Model Standing Orders in respect of Industrial Establishment not being Industrial Establishments in coal mines
Schedule I A - Model Standing Orders for Industrial Establishments in Coal Mines
Schedule I B - Model Standing Orders  on additional items applicable to all industries
Schedule II - Form I to Form V
Subject Index
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Author Details
H.L. Kumar, M.B.I.M. (London), Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Chief Editor, Labour Law Reporter
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