Description :

This publication covers labour management relations in the plantation sector.

Content :

1. Recruitment
   • Estate Staff
     • Letters of Appointment
     • Probationary Period
     • Promotions
   • Registered Estate Labour
     • Employment of labourers with unsatisfactory record
   • Casual Worker
   • Transfer of Casual Workers to regular labour force
   • Failure of Workers to go to the work allotted
   • Registration of Young Persons
   • Incoming Brides
2. Offer of Work
   1. Per Year
   2. Per Month
   3. Payment of Advance
   4. Recovery
   5. Nature of Work offer
3. Payments
   1. Wages
   2. Payment of Wages when Workers are on Strike
   3. Payment on Termination of Employment
   4. Daily wage
   5. Wage advances
   6. Extra rates
   7. Pro-rata Wages
   8. When task is not performed
   9. Overtime and rate of payment
   10. Overkilos
   11. Annual Holiday payments
   12. Maternity Benefits
   13. Gratuity
   14. Attendance Bonus
   15. Festival Advance
   16. Profit share Ex-gratia payment
4. Disputes
   1. Individual Disputes
   2. General Matters
   3. Work Practices and Norms and the Procedure Governing Changes
   4. Labour Department
   5. Strikes – Procedure during a Strike
   6. Reference to Industrial Court or Arbitration when Workmen are on Strike
   7. Payments and Holidays during a Strike
   8. Deployment on other Estates during Strikes
   9. Go Slow and Work to Rule
   10. Assistance of Employers’ Federation of Ceylon
5. Procedure Governing Disciplinary Action
   1. Estate Labour
   2. Absence – workers
   3. Criminal Offences – Workers
   4. Estate Staff:
      1. Suspension as a Measure of Punishment
      2. Suspension pending Disciplinary Inquiries
      3. Disciplinary Inquiries
6. Transfers
   1. Estate Labour
   2. Estate Staff
7. Cessation of Employment
   1. Termination of Employment on disciplinary grounds
   2. Constructive Termination
   3. Termination of Employment on Non-disciplinary Grounds
   4. Resignation
   5. Retirement
   6. Vacation of Employment
   7. Absence without Leave or Authority
8. Machinery for Disputes Resolution
   1. Labour Tribunals
   2. Arbitration
   3. Industrial Courts
   4. Labour Department and Ministry
   5. Labour Officers
   6. Complaints regarding Grievances of Non-statutory Nature
9. Collective Agreements
   1. Definition of Collective Agreement
   2. Submission to Commissioner of Labour for Publication
   3. When Collective Agreement comes into force
   4. Collective Agreement binding on Parties
   5. Implied terms in contract of employment
   6. Repudiation
   7. Benefits of Collective Agreements
   8. Existing Collective Agreements
10. Dialogue & Communication
    1. When Notice of Strike is given
    2. Matters of Importance
    3. Fortnightly Consultative Committee Meetings
    4. Minutes Book
       1. Need for and response time frame
       2. Language to be used
       3. Special Problems
       4. Casual Workers who cannot be registered
       5. Labour Day
       6. EFC Circulars to Companies
11. Documents relating to Employees
    1. Labour Diary
    2. Personal Files
    3. Minutes Book
    4. Security Log Book
    5. Main Checkroll
    6. Pocket Checkroll
    7. Field Records
    8. Holiday Pay Books
    9. Attendance Bonus Book
    10. Maternity Payments Book
    11. Festival Advance Book
    12. Cash Book
    13. Field Diary
    14. Field Work Cost Book
    15. Office Crop Book
    16. Correspondence Book
    17. Attendance Register
    18. Muster Chits
    19. Deductions Book
    20. Labour Register
    21. Unclaimed Wages Book
    22. Staff Salaries
12. Trade Union Facilities
    1. Fortnightly Consultative Committee meetings
    2. Dealing with Unions
       1. Individual Disputes
       2. General Matters
       3. Union Subscriptions
       4. Thalaivars/Spokesmen/Committees
          1. Recognition and Withdrawal of Recognition
    3. Trade Union Meetings on Estates
       1. General Arrangements
       2. Persons permitted to attend meetings
       3. Trade Union Representatives (Entry into Estates) Act No.25 of 1970
       4. Offences
       5. Authorised Representative
       6. Certificate of Identity
       7. Permission regarding Time/Venue of Meeting
       8. Abuse of the concession to hold Meetings
       9. Seminars/Workshops
       10. Duty Leave – Estate Staff
       11. Recognition of Trade Unions
13. Quarters - Staff
    1. Provision of Quarters
    2. Non-occupation of Quarters
    3. Problems
    4. Eviction from Quarters
    5. Unlawful occupation of Quarters
14. Employers Federation of Ceylon (EFC) and the Services it offers to members
    1. Section II
    3. Appendix A        -      Strike Return – (Preliminary)
    4. Appendix B         -      Daily Strike Report
    5. Appendix C         -      Final Strike Return