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.
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—
Read section 2The Essential Defence Services Act, 2021 · s. 2 · Repealed or not in force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;
Read section 2The Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1968 · s. 2 · Repealed or not in force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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