Notices · Industrial Relations Code
Offering vacancies to retrenched workers
- Before filling a vacancy: at least 15 days before
- Employer
What to do
When filling vacancies within a year of retrenching workers, give the retrenched workers who are citizens of India and willing to work preference over others, by seniority rule 28(2) s. 72.
Who it applies to
Any employer who has retrenched workers and proposes to take anyone into employment within one year of the retrenchment s. 72.
When
Display the vacancies on the notice board at least fifteen days before they are to be filled, and inform the eligible retrenched workers by speed post or e-mail rule 28(3).
How
Where there are fewer vacancies than retrenched workers, informing the senior-most retrenched workers, double the number of vacancies, is enough rule 28(3), proviso.
Then inform the negotiating union or council, or the Trade Unions, of the vacancies and of the workers informed rule 28(4).