Question

Principle: Trade dispute means any dispute between employers and workmen or between workmen and workmen or between employers and employers which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or the conditions of labour, of any person. Disputes connected with the non-employment must be understood to include a dispute connected with a dismissal, discharge, removal, or retrenchment of a workman.

Facts: 'X', an employee in a sugar factory, raised a dispute against 'Y', the employer, through trade union regarding certain matters connected with his suspension from the employment.  

Options

• Matters connected with suspension can amount to a trade dispute

• Matters connected with suspension cannot amount to a trade dispute.

• Only after dismissal, matters connected with suspension can amount to a trade dispute

• None of the above

Answer 1

Only after dismissal, matters connected with suspension can amount to a trade dispute

Explanation:

According to the principle stated in the scenario, disputes connected with the non-employment include a dispute connected with a dismissal, discharge, removal, or retrenchment of a workman. So, the suspension of X from the employment can amount to a trade dispute only after dismissal.