THE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT (STANDING ORDERS) ACT, 1946: KEY ASPECTS
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The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 (hereinafter referred to as the ISO) was enacted to require employers in industrial establishments to define with sufficient precision the conditions of employment under them, and to make the said conditions known to workmen employed by them. The ISO not only requires the employers to lay down conditions of service but also requires that the conditions of service must be clearly laid down so that there may not be any confusion or uncertainty in the minds of the workmen, who are required to work in accordance therewith.
It has been observed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the report: Management, Shahdara (Delhi) Saharanpur Light Railway Co. Ltd. V/s S.S. Railway Workers’ Union, AIR 1969 SC 513, that the object of ISO is to require employers to define with certainty conditions of service in their industrial establishment and to reduce them to writing and to get them compulsorily certified (Section 3 of the ISO), so that unnecessary industrial disputes can be avoided.
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