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STRIKES AND
LOCKOUTS
PRESENTED BY :
NIKITA BEGUM TALUKDAR
Table of contents
01 STRIKES:
meaning &
03 Legal, illegal,
justified and
unjustifed strikes
concept
02 Legality 04 Lockout
Introduction
Strikes and Lockouts are the weapons in the hands of workers
and employers.
Strikes is collective stoppage of work by workmen in order to
bring pressure upon the employers to fulfill their demands.
Lockout is a weapon of employer similar to strikes wherein the
employer shuts down his place of business as an instrument of
coercion or as a mode of exerting pressure upon workers with
a view to dictate his own terms to them.
01
STRIKES: Meaning &
Concept
Meaning:
S. 2 (q) of ID ACT,
“strike” means a cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any industry acting in
combination or a concerned 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;
Employed in an industry
(defined under the Code)