Section Text
Whenever a worker (other than a badli
worker or a casual worker) 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 laidoff, 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 worker 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 worker and the employer:
Provided further that it shall be lawful for the employer in any case falling within the foregoing
proviso to retrench the worker in accordance with the provisions contained in section 70 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 worker for having been laid-off during the preceding twelve months may be set off against the
compensation payable for retrenchment.
Explanation.--- For the purposes of this section "badli worker" means a worker who is employed in
an industrial establishment in the place of another worker whose name is borne on the muster rolls of
the establishment, but shall cease to be regarded as such, if he has completed one year of continuous
service in the establishment.