Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
25C. Right of workmen laid-off for
compensation
Whenever a workman (other than a badly 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, if there is an agreement to that effect between the
workman and the employer:
PROVIDED FURTHER that it shall be lawful for the employer in
any case falling within the foregoing proviso to retrench the workman in
accordance with the provisions contained in section 25F 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 retrenchments
Explanation: " Badli workman"
means a workman who is employed in an industrial establishment in the place of
another workman whose name is borne on the muster rolls of the establishment,
but shall cease to be regarded as such for the purposes of this. section, if he
has completed one year of continuous service in the establishment.]