Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
[West Ben. Act (Section 3.) (b) "employer" means the owner of an establishment and includes any person responsible to the owner for supervision and control of the establishment; "establishment" means any place where any industry, trade, business, undertaking, manu- facture, occupation or service is carried on but does not include any office or department of any Government or any establishment of any railway, major port, mine or oiLfield; (d) "period of suspension", in a case where express permission of the authority under sub-section (1) of section 33 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, is necessary before the employment of an employee can be validly terminated, includes the period until such permission is obtained and termination of service is effected; (e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (i) "suspension" means an interim decision of an employer as a result of which an employee is debarred temporarily from attending his office and performing his functions in the establishment where he is employed, such restriction being imposed on the employee on the ground either that a disciplinary proceeding has already been, or is shortly to be, instituted against him or that a criminal proceeding in respect of an offence alleged to have been committed by him is under investigation or trial ; (g) "wages" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (rr) of section 2 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. (c) Aot 14 of 1947. Payment of subsistence atiewanco.