Rule 60. Protected workers

Chapter 14 — MiscellaneousMade under The Industrial Relations Code, 2020

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59. (1) Every registered Trade Union connected with an industrial establishment, to which the Code applies, shall communicate to the employer before the 30" April every year, the names and addresses of such of the officers of the Union who are employed in that establishment and who, in the opinion of the Union should be recognized as "protected workers".
(2) The employer shall, subject to sub-section (3) and sub-section (4) of section 90, recognize such workers to be "protected workers" for the purposes of section 90 and communicate to the Union, in within, within fifteen days of the receipt of the names and addresses under sub-rule (1), the list of workers recognized as protected workers for the period of twelve months from the date of such communication
(3) Where the total number of names received by the employer under sub-rule (1) exceeds the maximum number of protected workers, admissible for the industrial establishment, under sub-section (4) of section 90, the employer shall recognize as protected workers only such maximum number of workers.
Provided that where there is more than one registered Trade Union in the industrial establishment, the maximum number shall be so distributed by the employer among the unions that. the numbers of recognized protected workers in individual unions bear practicably by the same proportion to one another as the membership figures of the unions. The employer shall in that case intimate in writing to the President or the Secretary of the each concerned union the number of protected workers allotted to it:
Provided further that where the number of protected workers allotted to a union under this sub-rule falls short of number of officers of the union seeking protection. The union shall be entitled to select the officers to be recognized as protected workers. Such selection shall be made by the union and communicated to the employer within five days of the receipt of the employers letter in this regard.
(4) When a dispute arises between an employer and any registered trade union in any matter connected with the recognition of "protected workers' under this rule, the dispute shall be referred to any Regional Deputy Labour commissioner or Assistant Labour Commissioner of the area concerned, who shall hear the dispute and send a report to the Labour Commissioner who shall decide the matter and whose decision shall be

Source: The Uttarakhand Industrial Relation Rules, 2026 — the official copy of the notification, pp. 133–134 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 133 · official download · all sources

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