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    A lockout is a weapon available to employers during industrial disputes that is comparable to a strike for employees. It involves closing a place of employment, suspending work, or refusing to employ workers as defined by the Industrial Disputes Act of 1947. Gherao, meaning to surround, is a method where workers collectively prevent management from leaving the office that can inflict physical duress and endanger industrial harmony by creating law and order problems.

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    A lockout is a weapon available to employers during industrial disputes that is comparable to a strike for employees. It involves closing a place of employment, suspending work, or refusing to employ workers as defined by the Industrial Disputes Act of 1947. Gherao, meaning to surround, is a method where workers collectively prevent management from leaving the office that can inflict physical duress and endanger industrial harmony by creating law and order problems.

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    Industrial Disputes

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    A lockout is a weapon available to employers during industrial disputes that is comparable to a strike for employees. It involves closing a place of employment, suspending work, or refusing to employ workers as defined by the Industrial Disputes Act of 1947. Gherao, meaning to surround, is a method where workers collectively prevent management from leaving the office that can inflict physical duress and endanger industrial harmony by creating law and order problems.

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    LOCKOUT

    Just as strike is a weapon available to the employee for enforcing there industrial demand, a lockout is the weapon available with the employers to persuade by a cohesive process. The employee to see his point of view and to accept his demands.

    DEFINITION
    The industrial dispute act 1947 defines it as: lock-out means the closing of a place of an employment, or the suspension of work or the refusal of an employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed by him.

    GHERAO
    Gherao means to surround. In this method, a group of workers initiate to collective action aimed at preventing members of the management from leaving the office. The persons who are Gheraoes are not allowed to move for a long time, sometimes even without food or water. The National Commission on Labour, while refusing to accept it as a form of industrial protest, opined that Gheraoes tend to inflict physical duress on the persons affected & endanger not only industrial harmony but also create problems of Law & Order.

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