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Right of workmen laid-off for compensation.
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1*[25C. Right of workmen laid-off for compensation
25C.
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Right of workmen laid-off for compensation.
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1*[25C. Right of workmen laid-off for compensation.- Whenever a
workman (other than a badli 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:
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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:
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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 retrenchment.
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1. Subs. by Act 35 of 1965, s. 5, for the former section (w.e.f. 1-
12-1965).
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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.]
25D.
Duty of an employer to maintain muster rolls of workmen.
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Source: India Code