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Trade dispute

(3) of the (English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906, as follows:- 'Trade dispute' means any dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which his connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of the

Industry

manufacture or calling of employers and includes any calling, service, employment, handicraft, or industrial occupation or avocation of workmen. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, s. 2 (j)] Means any industry or business in which any trade, occupation or

Gratuity

series of decisions of industrial tribunals gratuity has now come to be regarded as a legitimate claim which workmen can make and which, in a proper case, can give rise to an industrial dispute. Gratuity paid to

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Master and servant

their masters being termed 'employers') are subject to the control of the magistrates under the (English) Employers and Workmen Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 90), and by the Truck Acts (see that title) their wages

Salary or wages

for the time being entitled to; There can be no doubt that the retaining allowance paid to the workmen during the off-season falls within the substantive part of the definition of the expression 'salary or wage'. It

Industry and Industrial dispute

manufacture or calling of employers and includes any calling, service, employment, handicraft, or industrial occupation or avocation of workmen; (k) 'industrial dispute' means any dispute or difference between employers and employers, or between employers and workmen, or

Retrenchment

s. 2 (oo)] The word 'retrenchment' has acquired no special meaning so as to include a discharge of workmen on bona fide closure of an industry. The word 'retrenchment' as defined in s. 2(oo) and the word

Contractor

other than a mere supply of goods or articles of manufacture to such establishment, by the employment of workmen or to supply workmen to the establishment, and includes a sub-contractor, Khatadar, Sardar, agent or any other person,

Discharge

s. 7) Means discharge of a person in a running or continuing business - not discharge of all workmen when the industry itself ceases to exist on a bona fide closure of business, Banaras Ice Factory Ltd.

Any party bound by the award

Any party bound by the award, the expression 'any party bound by the award' refers to all workmen bound by the award, notice to terminate the said award can be given not by a individual workman

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