Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Punjab (Amendment) Rules, 2020

The Labour Department of Punjab on August 06, 2020 has issued Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Punjab (Amendment) Rules, 2020 to further amend the Industrial Employment (Standing orders) Punjab Rules, 1978. 

The following amendments have been made in the Industrial Employment (Standing orders) Punjab Rules, 1978: 

• A new Rule 3A has been inserted, which specifies that the employer shall not convert posts, namely: 

“No employer of an industrial establishment shall convert the posts of the permanent workmen existing in his industrial establishment as Fixed Term Employment.”

• A new Rule 5(7A) has been inserted, which specifies the particulars of the workmen, namely: 

“Number of fixed term employment workman.”

• In the Schedule II, a new clause 3(8) has been inserted, which specifies the model standing orders, namely:

“"fixed term employment workman" is a workman, who has been engaged for a fixed period, on the basis of a written contract of employment, provided that: 

1. His hours of work, wages, allowances, and other benefits shall not be less than that of a permanent workman. 

2. He shall be eligible for all statutory benefits available to a permanent workman proportionately according to the period of service rendered by him, even if his period of employment does not extend to the qualifying period of employment required in the statute.

• A new clause 19(4) has been inserted, which specifies the conditions for the termination of employment and resignation, namely: 

“Subject to the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act:

1. No notice of termination of employment, shall be necessary in the case of temporary workman whether monthly rated, weekly rated or piece rated and probationers or badli workmen.

2. No workman employed on fixed term employment basis as a result of non-renewal of contract or employment or on the expiry of such contract period without it being renewed, shall be entitled to any notice or pay in lieu thereof, if his services are terminated.”

[Notification No. 21/65/2019-4L/1095]