Who are Conciliation officers ? Section 4 of Industrial Disputes Act
1947
(1) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint such number of persons as it thinks fit, to be conciliation officers, charged with the duty of mediating in and promoting the settlement of industrial disputes.
(2) A conciliation officer may be appointed for a specified area or for specified industries in a specified area or for one or more specified industries and either permanently or for a limited period.
Section 2A - Dismissal, etc., of an individual workman to be deemed to be an industrial dispute
CHAPTER II - AUTHORITIES UNDER THIS ACT
Section 4 - Conciliation officers
Section 5 - Boards of Conciliation
Section 7B - National Tribunals
Section 8 - Filling of vacancies
Section 9 - Finality of orders constituting Boards, etc
CHAPTER IIA - NOTICE OF CHANGE
Section 9B - Power of Government to exempt
CHAPTER IIB GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL MACHINERY
Section 9C - Setting up of Grievance Redressal Machinery
Section 10 - Reference of disputes to Boards, Courts or Tribunals
Section 10A - Voluntary reference of disputes to arbitration
CHAPTER IV PROCEDURE, POWERS AND DUTIES OF AUTHORITIES