Rule 18. (1). Matters to be negotiated by a negotiating union or negotiating

counsel in an industrial establishment under sub-section (1) of section 14.- (1) There shall be a negotiating union or negotiating counsel as the case may be in an industrial establishment having registered trade union for negotiating with the employer of the industrial establishment on the following matters:- 1. Classification of workers, whether permanent, temporary, apprentices, probationers, badlis or fixed term employment; 2. Manner of intimating to workers periods and hours of work, holidays, paydays and wage rates; 3. Shift working; 4. Attendance and late coming; 5. Conditions of, procedure in applying for, and the authority which may grant leave and holidays; 6. Requirement to enter premises by certain gates, and liability to search; 7. Closing and reporting of sections of the industrial establishment, temporary stoppages of work and the rights and liabilities of the employer and workers arising there from; 8. Termination of employment, and the notice thereof to be given by employer and workers; 9. Suspension or dismissal for misconduct, and acts or omissions which constitute misconduct; 10. Means of redress for workers against unfair treatment or wrongful exactions by the employer or his agents or servants; 11. Any other matter which may be specified by the appropriate Government by notification.

(2) Criteria to recognize Trade Union as sole negotiating union of the workers under sub-section (2) of section 14.-Where only one Trade Union of workers registered under the provisions of this Code is functioning in an industrial establishment, then, the employer of such industrial establishment shall recognize such Trade Union as sole negotiating union of the workers subject to the criteria that such registered Trade Union of workers shall at all times continue to have not less than ten per cent of the workers or one hundred workers, whichever is less, subject to a minimum of seven, engaged or employed in an industrial establishment or industry with which it is connected, as its members.

(3) Verification of a Trade Union by the employer of the industrial establishment under sub-section (3) and sub-section (4) of section 14.-

a) If more than one Trade Union of workers registered under this Code are functioning in an industrial establishment, then, the Trade Union having fiftyone per cent or more workers on the muster roll of that industrial establishment, after duly verified by a committee consisting of equal number of members from the management of establishment and the members of the registered Trade Unions functioning in that establishment, supporting that Trade Union shall be recognized by the employer of the industrial establishment, as the sole negotiating union of the workers ;

b) If after verification as mentioned in clause (a), it is established that no such Trade Union has fifty-one per cent or more of workers on the muster roll of that industrial establishment, then, there shall be constituted by the employer of the industrial establishment, a negotiating council for negotiation on the matters referred to in sub-rule (1) consisting of the representatives of such registered Trade Unions which have the support of not less than twenty per cent of the total workers on the muster roll of that industrial establishment so verified and such representation shall be of one representative for each twenty per cent and for the remainder after calculating the membership on each twenty per cent.

(4) Facilities to be provided by the Industrial Establishment under sub section 7 of section 14. —The industrial establishment shall provide following facilities to a negotiating union or negotiating council: - i. notice board for the purpose of displaying information relating to activities; of negotiating union or negotiating council, as the case may be; ii. venue and necessary facilities for holding discussions by the negotiating union or negotiating council, as the case may be, as per the schedule and agenda to be settled between employer of the industrial establishment and the negotiating union or negotiating council, as the case may be; iii. venue and necessary facilities for holding discussions amongst the members of the negotiating union or constituents of negotiating council, as the case may be; iv. facility for entrance of the office bearers of the negotiating union or negotiating council, as the case may be, in the industrial establishment for the purpose of ascertaining the matters which are relating to working conditions of the workers; employers of the industrial establishment shall deduct subscription of the members of the Trade Union on the basis of the written consent of the worker; when the office bearers of the negotiating union or negotiating council shall be holding meetings with the employer as per agreed schedule between employer and such employed office bearers shall be treated as on duty; and vii. employer of an industrial establishment, having three hundred or more workers, shall provide suitable office accommodation with necessary facilities to the negotiating union or negotiating council, as the case may