The Standing Orders Act requires employers to clearly define and publish standing orders(service rules) and to make them known to the workmen employed by them.
Applicability
The Act extends to the whole of India and applies to every industrial establishment where 100 or more workmen are/were employed on any day of the preceding 12 months.
The Central or state Government may, however extend its provisions to any industrial establishment employing even less than 100 workmen.
The act applies to every worker employed in an industrial establishment but excludes workers employed in a managerial or administrative capacity and workers employed in a supervisory capacity and drawing wages > 1600 p.m. Apart from this the Act does not apply to workers subject to Army Act, The Air Force Act, The Navy Act or to persons employed in police service or as an officer or other employee of a prison.
