Description :

This book is considered as an important source of information pertaining to Labour Law and explains how it should be applied in the context of the ‘employment relationship’, including its evolution.
The Handbook is ideal for use not only for Employers but also for Administrators, HR, IR practitioners, students or any persons connected with the field of Labour Law and Industrial Relations.

Content :

1. ABSENCE
   • General Considerations
   • Absence due to ill-health
   • Unauthorized Absence

Vacation of Post Steps to be taken in case of unauthorized absence Assessing gravity of absence

• Absence due to reasons beyond employee’s control
  • General principle
  • Curfews
  • Transport shortages
• Punishment for Absence

2. ALLOWANCES – COST OF LIVING, NON-RECURRING COST OF LIVING GRATUITY
   • The Cost of Living Allowance (COL)
   • The Non-Recurring Cost of Living Gratuity
   • The Special Living Allowance
   • Special Living Allowance under the Wages Boards

3. ALLOWANCES – STATUTORY
   • Allowances in General
   • The Special Allowance of Workers’ Law No.17 of 1978
   • The Budgetary Relief Allowance of Workers (No.02) of Law No.18 of 1978
   • The Budgetary Relief Allowance of Workers’ Law (No.01) of 1978
   • The Supplementary Allowance of Workers Act, No.65 of 1979
   • The Budgetary Relief Allowance of Workers Act No.36 of 2005
   • The Budgetary Relief Allowance of Workers Act No.04 of 2016

4. APPRENTICESHIP
   • In General
   • Wages Boards
   • The National Apprenticeship Scheme
   • Employment of Trainees (Private Sector) Act No.08 of 1978

5. BATTA RATES

6. BONUS
   • General
   • Types of Bonus
     • Profit Bonus
     • Customary Bonus
     • Attendance Bonus
     • Incentive or Production Bonus
     • Bonus under EFC/CMU Collective Agreements and Manual Workers’ Collective Agreements

7. BOYCOTT
   • General
   • Boycott – As an Unfair Labour Practice

8. CAR DRIVERS

9. CASUAL EMPLOYMENT

10. CHECK-OFF

11. CLASSES OF WORK 

12. CLOSING ORDERS

13. COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS
    • Definition of a Collective Agreement
    • Effect of a Collective Agreement
    • Termination of a Collective Agreement
    • Extension of a Collective Agreement
    • Interpretation
    • Offences

14. EFC/CMU COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS
    • EFC/CMU Collective Agreements (Clerical, Supervisory & Allied Grades )-

1961. Revised in 1967, 1981, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2011 & 2014

14.2        Manual Workers’ Collective Agreement (1988)

15. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
    • Tuberculosis and Leprosy
    • Cholera
    • Other Communicable Diseases

16. CONDUCT OF EMPLOYEES
    • Outside workplace
    • During Strikes
17. CONTRACT LABOUR

18. CONVICTED OR ON REMAND QUESTION WHICH ARISE

19. CRIMINAL CONDUCT WHILST IN EMPLOYMENT

20. DAILY WAGE 

21. DISCIPLINARY INQUIRY PROCEDURE
    • In General
    • When to hold inquiries
    • Procedure prior to holding inquiry
      • Show Cause Letter
      • Suspension
      • Receipt of Explanation
      • Failure to submit Explanation (no reply)
      • Representation at Inquiry
      • Holding of Inquiry
      • Recording of Evidence
      • Additional Charges
      • Lesser Offence Proved
      • Inquiry Report

22. EMPLOYER, EMPLOYEE & INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR
    • General
    • The applicability of Statutory Law

23. THE FACTORIES ORDINANCE
    • Definition of a Factory
    • Registration of a Factory
    • Health – General Provisions
    • Safety – General Provisions
    • Welfare – General Provisions
    • Health, Safety and Welfare (Special Provisions) and Regulations
    • Notification of Investigation of Accidents
    • Employment of Women and Young Persons
    • Work outside the Factory including Home Work
    • Maintenance of Documents
    • Duties of Employees
    • Administration
    • Offences
24. FIVE-DAY WEEK LAW

25. FESTIVAL ADVANCES
26. GO-SLOW AND WORK-TO-RULE
    • Go-Slow
    • Work-to-Rule

27. PAYMENT OF GRATUITY 

28. HEALTH AND SANITARY PROVISIONS

29. HOLIDAYS
    • Holidays – The Shop & Office Employees’ Act

29.1.1        Weekly Holiday 29.1.2        Statutory Holiday 29.1.3        Statutory Holidays coinciding with Weekly Holidays 29.1.4        The Statutory Holidays declared at present 29.2        Holidays – Wages Boards 29.2.1        Statutory Holidays 29.2.2        Weekly Holidays 29.2.3        Short Working Day 29.3        Full Moon Poya Day

30. HOTELS
    • The Shop & Office Employees’ Act
    • Working Hours – Spread Over
    • Overtime
    • Weekly Holidays
    • Statutory Holidays
    • Poya Day
    • Provident Fund
    • Annual Holidays
    • Employment of Females

31. INCREMENTS

32. INDEBTEDNESS
    • Prohibitory Notice
    • Seizure of Salary

33. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES
    • Methods for the Settlement of Industrial Disputes
      • Conciliation
      • Arbitration
      • Industrial Court
      • Labour Tribunals
    • Offences in relation to Settlements, Awards and Orders

34. INTERVALS
    • Intervals under the Shop & Office Employees’ Act
    • Intervals under the Wages Boards

35. JURORS OR ASSESSORS OF QUASI COURTS – DUTY LEAVE 

36. LABOUR OFFICIALS’ POWERS 

37. LABOUR TRIBUNALS 

38. LATE ATTENDANCE 

39. LEAVE
    • Leave in General
    • Leave – Shop & Office Employees
    • Leave – Employees covered by Wages Boards
    • Some provisions of General and Special Application

40. LOANS 

41. MATERNITY LEAVE AND BENEFITS
    • Introduction
    • Females covered by the Shop & Office Employees’ Act
    • Females other than those covered by the Shop & Office Employees’ Act
    • Some Practical Issues
    • Prohibition of certain types of employment and termination of employment

42. MEALS

43. MEDICAL CERTIFICATES

44. MILITARY DUTY 

45. MOBILIZATION AND SUPPLEMENTARY FORCES’ ACT NO.40 OF 1985 

46. OVERTIME
    • In General
    • Overtime – The Shop & Office Employees’ Act
    • Overtime – Wages Boards
    • Overtime – EFC/Labour Collective Agreements

47. POLICE RESERVISTS
48. PRADESHIYA SABHAS
49. PRESCRIPTION FOR RECOVERIES

50. PROBATION

51. PROMOTION 

52. PROVIDENT FUND

53. PUNISHMENT FOR MISCONDUCT

54. RECORDS OF EMPLOYEES

55. REMUNERATION TRIBUNALS

56. RESIGNATION

57. RETIREMENT 

58. RETRENCHMENT 

59. SEASONAL WORKERS 

60. CASH SECURITIES

61. SHOP & OFFICE EMPLOYEES

62. SHOW CAUSE NOTICES

63. STRIKES

64. SUPERANNUATION

65. TEMPORARY WORKERS

66. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT
    • Notice
    • Statutory Dues
    • Loss of Confidence of on Suspicion
    • Misconduct
    • Methods of Termination
    • Vacation of Employment
    • Fixed Term Contracts

67. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OF WORKMEN (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, NO.45 OF 1971 AS AMENDED BY ACT NO.04 OF 1976, ACT NO.51 OF 1988, ACT NO.12 OF 2003 AND ACT NO.20 OF 2008

68. TRANSFERS

69. THE EMPLOYEES’ TRUST FUND ACT NO.46 OF 1980, AMENDED BY ACT NO.3 OF 1982, ACT NO.47 OF 1988 AND ACT NO.18 OF 1993

70. UNIONS

71. WAGES NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE

72. WAGES BOARDS
    • In General
    • Minimum Wages
    • Working day for Wages Purposes
    • Time-Rate and Piece-Rate Wages
    • Computation of Wages

73. WAGES AND SALARIES
    • In General
    • Wages to Strikes
    • Deductions

74. WARNING LETTERS

75. WORKING HOURS
    • Spread-Over
    • Salesmen and Canvassers
    • Field Staff (Wages Board Categories)
    • Shift Workers

76. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION

77. EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS
    • Sources of the Law
    • Definition under (Employment of Women, Young Persons & Children Act, No.47 of 1956 as amended)
    • Employment of Young Persons in Industrial Undertakings
    • Employment of Children in Industrial Undertakings
    • Employment of Young Persons in Factories
    • Employment of Women in Industrial Undertakings and Factories – Night Work
    • Conditions relating to Employment of Females under the Factories Ordinance
    • Females employed in Shops and Offices
    • Restrictions on Overtime
    • Restrictions in employing Young Persons in Hazardous Occupations

INDEX