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Special Rules like Standing Orders override general CCA Rules, 1965: Supreme Court reiterates

Supreme Court clarified that Standing Orders cover wider activities of workmen and were workmen specific, yet, in view of Section 13B of 1946 Act, a specific notification can be made applying CCA Rules 1965 to that specific aspect, but a notification was necessary.

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‘Beneficial Standing Orders to prevail over employer-employee agreements’; SC holds workmen temporarily engaged with Jet Airways entitled to permanency

Supreme Court regarded the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 as a special Act expressly and exclusively dealing with the schedule-enumerated conditions of service of workmen in industrial establishments, giving recognition and form to workmen’s hard-won and precious rights.

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Deciphering Chapter IV of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 – A case of legislative conundrum

by Sridhar Rajagopalan†