Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
10A. Payment of subsistence allowance
(1) Where any workmen is suspended by the employer pending
investigation or inquiry into complaints or charge of misconduct against him,
the employer shall pay to such workman subsistence allowance-
(a) at the rate of fifty per cent of the wages
which the workman was entitled to immediately preceding the date of such
suspension, for the first ninety days of suspension; and
(b) at the rate of seventy-five per cent of
the such wages for the remaining period of suspension if the delay in the
completion of disciplinary proceedings against such workman is not directly
attributable to the conduct of such workman.
(2) If any dispute arises regarding the subsistence allowance
payable to a workman under sub-section (1) the workman or the employer
concerned may refer the dispute to the Labor Court, constituted under the
Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), within the local limits of whose
jurisdiction the industrial establishment wherein such workman is employed is
situate and the Labor Court to which the dispute is so referred shall, after
giving the parties an opportunity of being heard, decide the dispute and such
decision shall be final and binding on the parties.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing
provisions of this section where provisions relating to the payment of
subsistence allowance under any other law for the time being in force in any
state are more beneficial than the provisions of this sections, the provisions
of such other law shall be applicable to the payment of subsistence allowance
in the state.]