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Continuous service

lock-out or a cessation of work which is not due to any fault on the part of the workman, and a workman, who during a period of twelve calendar months has actually worked in an industry for

defined in (English) Corn Production Act, 1917 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 46) (repealed), as 'any male workman who is not incapable, by reason of age or mental or other infirmity or physical injury, of performing

Interested and affected

Interested and affected, the union which sponsors the cause of an individual workman is interested in the dispute, but the workmen who are members of the union are not necessarily affected

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Ejusdem generis

them: e.g., the (English) Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7), enacts that no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, 'or other person whatsoever,' shall follow his ordinary calling on Sunday; here [see Sandiman v. Breach, (1827)

Employed

statutorily prescribed. It discloses a relationship of command and obedience. The essential condition of a person being a workman within the terms of the definition is that he should be employed to do the work in that

Employed in any industry

any work or operation which is incidentally connected with the main industry of the employer would be a workman provided the other requirements of s. 2(s) are satisfied, J.K. Cotton Spg. and Wvg. Mills Co. Ltd. v.

Employer and contractor

in respect to the details to the work'. There is a clear-cut distinction between a contractor and a workman. The identifying mark of the latter is that he should be under the control and supervision of the

Establishment

trading, business or manufacturing apparatus with a separate identifiable existence, Central Inland Water Transport Corp. Ltd. v. Their Workman, AIR 1957 SC 1639 (1644): (1975) 4 SCC 348. Establishment, envisages activities being carried out at a fixed

Go slow

Go slow, Go-slow which is a picturesque description of deliberate delaying of production by workman pretending to be engaged in the factory is one of the most pernicious practices that discontented or disgruntled

In the course of employment

of employment, the words 'In the course of employment' mean in the course of the work which the workman is employed to do and which is incidental to it', Mackinnon Machenzie and Co. (P) Ltd. v. Ibrahim

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