Section 33-A: Special provision for adjudication as to whether conditions of service, etc., changed during pendency

Where an employer contravenes the provisions of Section 33 during the pendency of proceedings [before a conciliation officer Board, an arbitrator, a Labour Court, Tribunal or National Tribunal], any employee aggrieved by such contravention, may make a compliant in writing, [in the prescribed manner, -
(a) to such conciliation officer or Board, and the conciliation officer or Board shall take such compliant into account in mediating in, and promoting the settlement of, such industrial dispute; and
(b) to such arbitrator, Labour Court, Tribunal or National Tribunal and on receipt of such complaint, the arbitrator, Labour Court, Tribunal or National Tribunal, as the case may be, shall adjudicate upon the compliant as if it were a dispute referred to or pending before it, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and shall submit his or its award to the appropriate Government and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.]

Related Keywords

Arbitration Proceedings

Conciliation Proceedings

Dispute, Industrial Dispute