Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Badli Workman" 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; (b) "enrolled workman" means a workman (whether Badli workman or permanent or temporary workman) whose name is borne on the muster roll, or as the case may be in Badli Register of a factory on the first day of a specified period; (c) "factory" means any premises including precincts thereof where 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 Cen- tral Government is the appropriate Government under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947; (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; (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; (f) "specified period" means such period (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; (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; Short title, extent and commencement. Definitions. 14 of 1947. [ 1981: Guj. 20 Gujarat Payment of Unemployment Allowance to Workmen In Factories Act, 1981 (h) "unemployment allowance" means unemployment allowance payable under section 3; (i) the expression "workmen" 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.