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Industrial relations, means all dealings and relationships between an employer and its employees, including collective bargaining about issues such as safety and benefits, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 779....
Industry
Industry, 'Industrial dispute' and 'workman' taken in the extended significance, or exclude it. Though the word 'undertaking' in definition of industry is wedged in between business and trade on the one hand and manufacture on the other, and though therefore it might mean only a business or trade undertaking, still it must be remembered that if that were so, there was no need to use the word separately from business or trade. The wider import is attracted even more clearly when we look at the latter part of the definition which refers to 'calling, service, employment, or industrial occupation of, avocation of workman. 'Undertak-ing' in the first part of the definition and 'industrial occupation or avocation in the second part obviously mean much more than what is ordinarily understood by trade or business. The definition was apparently intended to include within scope what might not strictly be called a trade or business venture, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa,...
Industrial establishment
Industrial establishment, means an industrial undertaking or a company as defined under s. 3 of the Companies Act, 1956 or a firm registered unders. 59 of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 which is engaged in any industry, or in any trade, business or service. [Central Industrial Security Force Act, 1968 (50 of 1968), s. 2 (1) (ca)]Industrial establishments, s. 1(3)(b) applies to every establishment within the meaning of any law for the time being in force in relation to establishments in a State. Such an establishment would include an industrial establishment within the meaning of s. 2(ii)(g) of the Payment of Wages Act. Accordingly, the Payment of Gratuity Act applies to an establishment in which any work relating to the construction, development or maintenance of buildings, roads, bridges or canals, or relating to operations connected with navigation, irrigation or the supply of water, or relating to the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity or any other form of po...
Employee
Employee, includes not only persons employed directly by the employer but also persons employed through a contractor. Moreover, they include not only persons employed in the factory but also persons employed in connection with the work of the factory, P.M. Patel and Sons v. Union of India, (1986) 1 SCC 32: AIR 1987 SC 447: (1985) Supp 3 SCR 55.A person who works in the service of another person (the employer) under an express or implied contract of hire under which the employer has the right to control the details of work performance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 543.Means a person appointed to or borne on thecadre of staff of the Corporation, other thanperson on deputation. [Employees' State Insurance Corporation (General Provident Fund) Rules, 1995, s. 2(1)(e)]Means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and other staff of the University, Manipur University Act, 2005, s. 2(k).In relation to the University, means a person other than a teacher or an office...
Industrial assurance
Industrial assurance. See the (English) Industrial Assurance Act, 1923 (repealing the Collecting Societies and Industrial Assurance Companies Act, 1896), which consolidates and amends the law relating to industrial assurance. The Act gives increased protection to the poorer classes of assured persons in respect of life insurance business the premiums upon which are received by collectors at intervals of less than two months. 'Industrial assurance funds' (life funds) cannot be made security for a loan other than a temporary bank overdraft. The Act contains important provisions as to forfeiture and surrender of policies, accounts and inspection, and the printing of portions of the Act on policies so as to draw the attention of policy-holders to rights conferred by the Act. See the (English) Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 28), which permits the issue of endowment policies; and see FRIENDLY SOCIETIES....
Industrial or other establishment
Industrial or other establishment, means any--(a) tramway service, or motor transport service eng-aged in carrying passenger or goods or both by road for hire or reward;(aa) air transport service other than such service belonging to, or exclusively employed in the military, naval or air forces on the Union or the Civil Aviation Department of the Government of India;(b) dock, wharf or jetty;(c) inland vessel, mechanically propelled;(d) mine, quarry or oil-field;(e) plantation;(f) workshop or other establishment in which articles are produced, adapted or manufactured, with a view to their use, transport or sale;(g) establishment in which any work relating to the construction, development or maintenance of buildings, roads, bridges or canals, or relating to operations connected with navigation, irrigation or the supply of water or relating to the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity or any other form of power is being carried one;(h) any other establishment or class of...
Capable of industrial application
Capable of industrial application, in relation to an invention, means that the invention is capable of being made or used in an industry. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (ac)]...
Gas
Gas. See the (English) Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847, and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Gas.'By s. 161 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (see also (English) Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 23), any urban authority may contract with any person for the supply of gas or other means of lighting their district, and provide lamps and other materials for such lighting; or where there is not any company or person authorized by Parliament to supply gas, may themselves undertake to supply gas to their district or such part of it as is not within the limits of supply of any such company or person. by s. 162, an urban authority for the purpose of supplying gas to their district may (with the sanction of the Board of Trade) buy, and the directors of any gas company (duly authorized as required by the Act) may sell and transfer their undertaking to such authority, on agreed terms.Originally gas was supplied to a prescribed illumi-nating standard. Later, when t...
Industrial dispute
Industrial dispute, means any dispute or difference between employers and employers, or between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or with the conditions of labour, of any persons. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, s. 2 (k)]The words 'Industrial disputes' in the Industrial Disputes Act include also disputes that might arise between municipalities and their employees in branches of work that can be said to be analogous to the carrying out of a trade or business, D.N. Banerjee v. P.R. Mukherjee, AIR 1953 SC 59: (1953) SCR 302. [Constitution of India Sch VII, List III, Entry 22]A dispute between an employer and single workman does not fall within the definition of Industrial dispute' under the U.P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. But though the applicability of the Act to an individual dispute as opposed to dispute involving a group of workmen is excluded, if the workmen as a body or a con...
Industrial undertaking
Industrial undertaking, means any undertaking pertaining to a scheduled industry carried on in one or more factories by any company but does not include--(i) an ancillary industrial undertaking as defined in clause (aa) of s. 3 of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951; and(ii) a small scale industrial undertaking as defined in clause (j) of the aforesaid s. 3. [Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (1 of 1986), s. 3 (1) (f)]Means any undertaking pertaining to a scheduled industry and includes an undertaking engaged in any other industry, or in any trade, business or service which may be regulated by Parliament by law. [Central Industrial Security Force Act, 1968 (50 of 1968), s. 2 (1) (b)]Means any undertaking pertaining to a scheduled industry carried on in one or more factories by any person or authority including Government. [Indus-tries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), s. 3 (d)]...
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