Section 25Q - Penalty for lay-off and retrenchment without previous permission : Industrial Disputes Act 1947

What is Penalty for lay-off and retrenchment without previous permission? Section 25Q of Industrial Disputes Act 1947

Section 25Q of Industrial Disputes Act 1947 : "Penalty for lay-off and retrenchment without previous permission"

25Q. Any employer who contravenes the provisions of section 25M or of section 25N shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

STATE AMENDMENTS

RAJASTHAN
For section 25Q the following section shall be substituted, namely:-

"25Q. Penalties for lay-off and retrenchment without previous permission. -Any employer who-

(a) lays off a workman without complying with the provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 25M; or

(b) contravenes an order refusing to grant permission to lay-off or to continue the lay-off of a workman under sub-section (4) of section 25M; or

(c) contravenes such an order as is referred to in clause (b) passed as a result of review under sub-section (7) of section 25M; or

(d) contravenes the provisions of clause (c) of sub-section (1) or sub-section (4) of section 25N; or

(e) contravenes an order refusing to grant permission to retrench a workman under sub-section (2) or an order under sub-section (9) of section 25N; or

(f) contravenes such an order as is referred to in clause (e) passed as a result of review under sub-section (7) or sub-section (9) of section 25N; or

(g) contravenes the direction to reinstate a retrenched workman given under sub-section (1) of section 25PP or such a direction given as a result of review under sub-section (3) of the said section, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees or with both." -Rajasthan Act No. 8 of 1984.