The Gujarat Payment of Unemployment Allowance to Workmen in Factories Act, 1981

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    "title": "The Gujarat Payment of Unemployment Allowance to Workmen in Factories Act, 1981",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Payment of Unemployment Allowance to Workmen in Factories Act, 1981",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 20 of 1981",
    "act_year": 1981,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Gujarat Payment of Unemployment Allowance to Workmen in Factories Act, 1981",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Badli Workmen\" means a workman who is provided with a Badli card and who is employed in place of another workman who is temporarily absent and whose name is borne on the muster roll of the factory;\n(b) \"enrolled workman\" means a workmen (whether Badli workmen or permanent or temporary workman) whose name is borne on the muster roll, or as the case may be in Badli Register of factory on the first day of a specified period;\n(c) \"factory\" means any premises including precincts thereof whereon ten or more workers are working or were working on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing process is being carried on with the aid of power, or is ordinarily so carried on, but does not include a factory in relation to industrial disputes concerning which the Central Government is the appropriate Government under the Industrial Dispute Act, 1947 (14 of 1947);\n(d) \"Manager\" means the person who is for the time being managing the factory, and includes any other officer duly authorised by the employer to act as Manager, such authorisation being notified to the workmen by displaying it on the notice board of the factory ;\n(e) \"permanent workman\" means a workman who has been employed on a permanent basis or whose appointment has been confirmed in writing by the Manager or by a person duly authorised in this behalf by the Manager and includes a workman who has completed a probationary period of three months in the aggregate in the same or another occupation in the factory and an apprentice who is asked or appointed to work in a post or vacancy of a permanent workman for the purposes of payment of wages to him during the period he works on such post or in such vacancy;\n(f) \"specified period\" means such (including its extension) as the State Government may for the whole State or any part thereof from time to time by notification in the Official Gazette specify in this behalf;\n(g) \"temporary workman\" means a workman who has been appointed in a factory for a limited period for work which is of an essentially temporary nature or who is employed temporarily as an additional workman in connection with temporary increase in work of a permanent nature;\n(h) \"unemployment allowance\" means unemployment allowance payable under Section 3;\n(i) the expression \"workman\" and any other words or expressions used in this Act but not defined therein shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947).",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Payment of unemployment allowance.",
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            "content": "(a) reduction of not less than twenty five percent of the maximum demand for electrical energy, or\n(b) reduction of not less than fifteen per cent of the off-take of electrical energy, or\n(c) imposition of a weekly holiday, in addition to that prescribed under the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), or\n(d) closure of a shift in factories, or\n(e) restriction on hours of shifts in factories, on account of any-\n(i) restriction on consumption or use of, or\n(ii) discontinuance of or restriction on or prohibition of regulation of supply of,-\nelectrical energy under the Bombay Electricity (Special Powers) Act, 1946 (Bombay XX of 1946),\nthen notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force the employer shall subject to provisions of this Act, pay to such enrolled workman an unemployment allowance at such rate per day and for such number of days in each calendar month during the specified period as is provided in sub-section (2) and (3).",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Workmen not entitled to unemployment allowance in certain cases.",
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            "content": "(a) if he is entitled to any lay-off compensation under the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947);\n(b) if he refuses to accept any alternative employment in the same factory in which he has been provided with his usual employment or in any other factory belonging to the same employer in the same town or village or situated within a radius of 8 kilometres from the first mentioned factory and in the opinion of the employer the work in such alternative employment does not require any special skill or previous experience and can be done by the workman:\n(c) if such workman is not provided employment on any day due to any strike or slowing down of production on the part of the workmen in another part of the factory.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Recovery of money due from employer.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Penalty.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Cognizance of offence.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Offences by companies.",
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            "content": "(i) \"company\" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and\n(ii) \"director\" in relation to a firm means a partner in the firm.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Power of Government to make rules.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj140",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 20 of 1981",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1981",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Payment of Unemployment Allowance to Workmen in Factories Act, 1981",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:48"
}