Legal glossary

“strike”

Defined in 3 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
  1. The Essential Services Maintenance (Assam) Act, 1980 · s. 2

    (c) "strike" means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any essential service acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or who have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment, and includes—
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  2. The Essential Defence Services Act, 2021 · s. 2 · Repealed or not in force

    (b) "strike" means the cessation of work, go-slow, sit down, stay-in, token strike, sympathetic strike or mass casual leave, by a body of persons engaged in the essential defence services, acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so engaged to continue to work or to accept employment, and includes-(i) refusal to work overtime, where such work is necessary for the maintenance of the essential defence services;
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  3. The Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1968 · s. 2 · Repealed or not in force

    (b) "strike" means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any essential service acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment, and includes— Explanation . — Where the Houses of Parliament are summoned to re-assemble on different date, the period of forty days shall be reckoned from the later of those dates.
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