Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
25G. Procedure for retrenchment
Where any workman in an industrial establishment who is a
citizen of India, is to be retrenched and he belongs to a particular category
of workmen in that establishment, in the absence of any agreement between the
employer and the workman in this behalf, the employer shall ordinarily retrench
the workman who was the last person to be employed in that category, unless for
reasons to be recorded the employer retrenches any other workman.