Trade Union

Definition of Employer
Employer means a person, a body of persons or body corporate, company
or institutions owning or managing a shop, commercial establishment or
industrial establishment, or their heirs, successors or assigns, as the case
may be, and includes;

i) in a factory, any person working as manager of the factory, 

ii) in any shop, commercial establishment or industrial

establishment, carried on by or behalf on a local authority, the
officer appointed, the chief executive officer of that authority, and 

iii) in relation to any other shop, commercial establishment or

industrial establishment, every Director, Manager, Secretary, Agent
or other officer or person concerned with management thereof and
responsible to the owner for the supervision and control of such
shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment.

Definition of worker

Worker means any person including an apprentice employed in any

establishment or industry, either directly or through a contractor, to
do any skilled, unskilled, manual, technical, trade promotional or
clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment
be expressed or implied, but does not include a person employed
mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity. Workers
employed in any establishment shall be classified in any of the
following classes according to the nature and condition of work
namely-

1. Apprentice
2. Badli
3. Casual
4. Temporary
5. Probationary
6. Permanent.

Trade unions of workers and employers

(a) workers, without distinction whatsoever, shall have the right to form trade
union primarily for the purpose of regulating the relations between workers and employers or
workers and workers and, subject to the constitution of the union concerned, to joint trade
union of their own choosing;
(b) Employers, without distinction whatsoever, shall have the right form trade
union primarily for the purpose of regulating the relations between employers
and workers or employers and employers and, subject to the constitution of the
union concerned, to join trade union of their own choosing; and
(c) Trade unions of workers and employers shall have the right to form and
join federations and any such union and federation shall have the right to
affiliate with any international organization and confederation of worker’s or
employers organization.
(d) Trade unions and employers’ associations shall have the right to draw up
their constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom, to
organize their administration and activities and to formulate their
programmers;