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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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