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Business Law.......... Summary and Make Note (Chapter vi, ix & xiii)


HAMDARD UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH                          
New town,  Sonargoan, Narayanganj.           
                                                    
Assignment
On
Summary and Make Note (Chapter vi, ix & xiii)
Course Title- Business Law
                            
                                Submitted By:
Md. Habibul Islam Hamdu
ID.
Batch:  2nd    Semester:  3rd
BBA Program
 
Submitted to:
A.K.M. Shakil Mahmud
Lecturer
Department of Marketing

                                       Submission Date: 30-06-2014
Submission Letter

Date: 30 June, 2014
A.K.M. Shakil Mahmud
Lecturer
Department of Marketing
Subject: The Application of Summary and Make Note (Chapter vi, ix & xiii)
Dear Sir
You give an assignment, the report making on the basis of ‘’Summary and Make Note’’ (Chapter vi, ix and xiii). We have attempted to present the subject briefly and concisely as possible. I am confident to this report will help us a lot to enrich my career in future.
I have tried our best to compile the appropriate information as comprehensively as possible, if you need any further query, we will be obliged to assists you.


Sincerely

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Md. Habibul Islam Hamdu
ID. 642131008
Batch:  2nd  
 Semester:  3rd
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BBA Program

Executive summary

Every law is most important for any establishment life. In this ACT, employee safety precaution of case of life, Machinery or plant in an establishment is in such a condition that it is dangerous to human life or safety, An adult worker employed in an establishment, Where, an adult worker in an establishment works on a shift which extends beyond midnight, The government may prescribe registers to be maintained in an establishment for the purpose of securing compliance with the provisions of this section. any holiday, leave with wages, leave with or without wages due to sickness or accident, maternity leave not exceeding sixteen weeks, period of lay-off, a strike which is legal or a lock-out which is not illegal.















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Table of Content




Serial No.
Topics name
Page
No.
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Introduction
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Make note
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3
Safety
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4
Working hour and leave
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5
Conclusion & Reference
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Introduction

179. Requirements for registration: (1) A trade union shall not be entitled to registration under this chapter unless the constitution thereof provides for the following matters, namely:
(a) The name and address of the trade union;
(b) The objects for which the trade union has been formed;
(c) the manner in which a worker may become a member of the trade union specifying therein that no worker shall be enrolled as its member unless he applies in the form set out in the constitution declaring that he is not a member of any other trade union;
(d) The sources of the fund of the trade union and statement of the purposes for which such fund shall be applicable;
(e) the conditions under which a member shall be entitled to any benefit assured by the constitution of the trade union and under which any fine or forfeiture may be imposed on him;
(f) The maintenance of a list of the member of the trade union and of adequate facilities for the inspection thereof by the officers and members of the trade union;
(g) The manner in which the constitution shall be amended, varied or rescinded;
(h) The safe custody of the funds of trade union, its annual, audit, the manner of audit and adequate facilities for inspection of the books of account by the officers and members of trade union;
(i) The manner in which the trade union may be dissolved;
(j) the manner of election of officers by the general body of the trade union and the tem, not less than two years and not exceeding three years, for which an officer may gold office;
(k) the number of members of the executive which shall not be less than five and more than thirty-five as may be prescribed by rules;
(l) the procedure for expressing want of confidence in any officer of the trade union; and
(m)the meetings of the executive and of the general body o the trade union, so that the executive shall meet at least once in every three months and the general body at least once every year.
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(2) A trade union of workers shall not be entitled to registration under this chapter unless it has a minimum membership of thirty percent of the total number of workers employed in the establishment in which it is formed: Provided that more than one establishments under the same employer, which are allied to and connected with the another for the purpose of carrying out the same industry irrespective of their place of situation, shall be deemed to be one establishment for the purpose of this sub-section.
(3) Where any doubt or dispute arises as to whether any two or more establishments are under the same employer or whether they are allied to or connected with one another for the purpose of carrying on the same industry the matter may be referred to the director of labour for decision. 
(4) Any person aggrieved by a decision of the director of labor under sub-section (3), may, within thirty days of the decision, prefer an appeal to the labor court; and the decision of the labor court shall be final.
182. Registration: (1) The director of Labor, on being satisfied that a trade union has complied with all the requirements of this chapter, shall register the trade union in a prescribed register and issue a registration certificate in the prescribed form within a period of sixty days from the date of receipt o the application for registration.
(2) If the Director of Labor finds the application to be deficient in any material respect, he shall communicate in writing his objection to the trade union within a period of fifteen days from the receipt of the application and the trade union shall reply thereto within a period of fifteen days from the receipt of the objection.
(3) When the objection raised by the director of Labor has been satisfactorily met, the Director of Labor shall register the trade union as provided in sub-section (1) and if the objection is not met satisfactorily he shall reject the application.
(4) When the application has been rejected or the director of Labor has, after settlement of the objection delayed disposal of the application beyond the period of sixty days provided in subsection
(1), the trade union may, within a period of thirty days from the date of such rejection or the date of expiry of such period, whichever is earlier, appeal to the Labor court.
(5) The Labor court, after hearing the appeal, for reasons to be stated in its judgment, may pass an order directing the director of labor to register the trade union and to issue a certificate of registration within a period of seven days from the date of order or may dismiss the appeal.
(6) Any party aggrieved by the judgment passed by the labor court under sub-section (5) may prefer appeal to the labor appellate tribunal within 30 (thirty) days from the date of receipt of the order of the labor court.
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183. Registration of trade unions in a group of establishment: (1) notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter, for the purpose of formation of a trade union any group of establishments shall be treated as an establishment, and no separate trade union shall be formed in any establishment included in the group of establishments.
(2) A group of establishment shall, for the purposes of this section, mean all the establishment, none of which employs more than twenty workers, in a specified area carrying on the same or similar specified industry.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), all the establishments, irrespective of the number of workers employed therein, in a specified area carrying on any of the following industries shall be deemed to be a group of establishments for that area, namely:
(a) Private road transport, including rickshaw;
(b) Private inland river transport;
(c) Tailoring and garments manufacturing industry wherein less than 100 workers are employed;
(d) Tea industry;
(e) Jute bailing;
(f) Tannery;
(g) Bide;
(h) Handloom;
(i) Hosiery;
(j) Printing press;
(k) Hotels or motels where number of guest rooms does not exceed twenty-five;
(l) Restaurant not forming part of a hotel;
(m) Small-scale metal industry;
(n) book-binding;
(o) cinema and theatre: Provided that the government may, if it deems fit so to do in the national interest, by notification in the official gazette, add any industry to this list of industries.
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(4) Specified area as mentioned in sub-section (2) or (3) shall mean such area specified for specific industries published by notification in the official gazette, by the government; and such area may be at national, regional or local level, as may be expedients; and such area may be at national, regional or local level, as may be expedients; and different areas may be specified for different industries.
(5) Specified industries as mentioned in sub-section (2), shall mean such industries which, the Government, may by notification in the official gazette, specify for the purpose.
(6) A trade union for a group of establishments shall be registered, if it has as its members not less than thirty percent of the total number of works employed in the entire group of establishments taken together;
(7) Notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter a person who is not employed or engaged in an establishment may be entitled to be, or to be elected as, an officer of any trade union, formed in any group of establishments, if the constitution of such trade union provides for election of such person: Provided that, the number of such persons shall not in any case be more than one fourth of the total number of its of officers.
(8) Subject to this section other provisions of this chapter shall apply to a trade union formed in a group of establishments as they apply to a trade union formed in an individual establishment.
187. President. etc. not to be transferred: Neither the president nor the General Secretary.
Organizing Secretary or Treasure of any trade union shall be transferred from one district to
another without his consent.
189. Certificate of registration : The Director of Labour, on registering a trade union under section
182, shall issue a certificate of registration in the prescribed form which shall be conclusive
evidence that the trade union has been duly registered under this chapter.
190. Cancellation of registration: (i) Subject to the other provisions of this section, the registration of a trade union may be cancelled by the director of Labor if the trade union has-
(a) Applied for cancellation of registration;
(b) Ceased to exist;
(c) Obtained registration by fraud or by misrepresentation of facts;
(d) contravened any of the basic provisions of its constitution;
(e) committed any unfair labor practice;
(f) A membership which has fallen short of the number of membership required under this chapter; and
(g) Contravened any of the provisions of this chapter or the Rules.
(2) Where the director of Labor is satisfied on enquiry that the registration of a trade union should be cancelled, he shall submit an application to the Labor court praying for permission to cancel such registration.
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(3) The Director of Labor shall cancel the registration of a trade union within thirty days from the date of receipt of permission from the Labor court.
(4) The registration of a trade union shall not be cancelled on the ground mentioned in sub-section
(1) (e) if the unfair labor practice is not committed within three months prior to the date of submission of the application to the Labor Court.
or whose registration has been cancelled shall, subject to section 191 (2), function as a trade union.
(2) No person shall collect any subscription, other than enrollment fee, any fund of a trade union
mentioned in sub-section (1).
193. Restriction on dual membership : No worker or employer, shall be entitled to enroll himself,
as, or to continue to be, a member of more than one trade union at the same time.
202. Collective bargaining agent: (1) where there is only one trade union in an establishment, that trade union shall, be deemed to be collective bargaining agent for such for such establishment.
(2) Where there are more trade unions than one in an establishment, the Director of Labor shall, upon an application made in this behalf by any such trade union or by the employer, hold a secret ballot, within a period of not more than one hundred and twenty days from the date of receipt of such application, to determine as to which one of such trade unions shall be the collective bargaining agent for the establishment.
(3) Upon receipt of an application under sub-section (2) the director of Labor shall, by notice in
Writing call upon every trade union in the establishment to which the application relates to indicate, within such time, not exceeding fifteen days, as may be specified in the notice, whether it desires to be a contestant in the secret ballot to be held for determining the collective bargaining agent in relation to the establishment.
(4) If a trade union fails to indicate, within the time specified in the notice, its desire to be a contestant in the secret ballot, it shall be presumed that it shall not be a contestant in such ballot.
(5) If no trade union indicates, within the time specified in the notice, its desire to be a contestant in the secret ballot, the trade union which has made the application shall be declared to be the collective bargaining agent in relation to the establishment concerned, provided it has as its members not less than one-third of the total number of workers employed in the establishment.
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(6) Every employer shall on being so required by the Director of labor, submit to him a list of all workers employed in the establishment for not less than a period of three months in the establishment excluding those who are casual or badly workers, and the list shall contain the following particulars; namely:
(7) on being so required Director of Labor, every employer shall submit to the Director of Labor requisite number of additional copies of the list of workers mentioned in sub-section (6) and shall provide such facilities for verification of the list submitted by him.
(8) On receipt of the list of workers from the employer, the director of Labor shall send a copy of the list to each of the contesting trade unions and shall also affix a coy there of in a conspicuous part of his office and another copy of the list in a conspicuous part of the establishment concerned, together with a notice inviting objections, if any, to be submitted to him within such time as may be specified by him.
(9) The objections, if any, received by the director of Labor within the specified time shall be disposed of by him after necessary enquiry.
(10) The Director of labor shall make such amendments, alterations or modifications in the list of workers submitted by the employer as may be required by any decision given by him on objections under sub-section (9).
(11) After amendments, alteration of modification, if any, made under sub-section (10), or where no objections are received by the director of Labor within the specified time the director of Labor shall prepare a list of worker employed in the establishment concerned duly certified and send copies thereof to the employer and such of the contesting trade unions at least seven days prior to the date fixed for poll.
(12) The list of workers prepared and certified under sub-section (11), shall be deemed to be the list of voters, and every worker whose name appears in that list shall be entitled to vote in the poll to determine the collective bargaining agent.
(13) Every employer shall provide all such facilities in his establishment as may be required by the director of labor for the conduct of the poll but shall not interfere with, or in any way influence the voting.
(14) No person shall canvas for vote within a radius of forty-five meters of the polling stations.
(15) For the purpose of holding secret ballot to determine the collective bargaining agent, the
Director of Labor shall-
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(a) fix the date for the poll and intimate the same to each of the contesting trade unions and also to every employer;
(b) on the date fixed for the poll to place in the polling station set up for the purpose the
Ballot boxes which shall be sealed in the presence of the representatives of the contesting
Trade unions as to receive the ballot papers,
(c) Conduct the poll at the polling stations at which the representatives of the contesting trade unions shall have the right to be present;
(d) After the conclusion of the poll and in the presence of such of the representatives of the contesting trade unions as may be present, open the ballot boxes and count the votes; and
(e) After the conclusion of the count, declare the trade union which has received the highest number of votes to be the collective bargaining agent; Provided that no trade union shall be declared to be the collective bargaining agent for an establishment unless the number of bots received by it is not less than one third of the total number of workers employed in such establishment.
(16) Where a registered trade union has been declared under sub-section (14) (e) to be the collective bargaining agent for an establishment, it shall be such collective bargaining agent for a period of two years and no application for the determination of the collective bargaining agent for such establishment shall be entertained within a period of two years from the date of such declaration : provided that, in the case of a group of establishments, the trade union declared to be the collective bargaining agent therefore shall be such collective bargaining agent for three years.
(17) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (16), where a registered trade union desires to be the collective bargaining agent for an establishment after the expiry of the terms of an existing collective bargaining agent or where an existing Collective bargaining agent desires to continue as such for the next term, it may make an application to the director of Labor, not earlier than one hundred and fifty days and not later than one hundred and twenty days immediately before the expiry of the term of the existing collective bargaining agent, to hold a secret ballot to determine the next collective bargaining agent for the establishment.
(18) Where an application under sub-section (17) is made, a secret ballot to determine the next collective bargaining agent shall be held within one hundred and twenty days from the receipt of such application, but the trade union declared to be the next collective bargaining agent shall be the collective bargaining agent from the date of expiry of the term of the existing collective bargaining agent.
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(19) Where after an application made under sub-section (17) a collective bargaining agent has not been determined for reasons beyond the control of the director of Labour before the expiry of the term of the existing collective bargaining agent, the existing collective bargaining agent shall continue to function as such till a new collective bargaining agent is determined.
(20) Where no application is made under sub-section (17), the director of Labor Day, after the expiry of the term of the existing collective bargaining agent, recognize such collective bargaining agent or any registered trade union to act as collective bargaining agent for the establishment unless a registered trade union is deemed to be a collective bargaining agent for the establishment under sub-section (1) or until a collective bargaining agent is determined by secret ballot under the foregoing provisions of this section, as the case may by.
(21) Any dispute arising out of any matter in relation to an election for determination of collective bargaining agent shall be referred to the Labour court, and the decision of the Labour court thereon shall be final.
(22) If in any election for determination of collective bargaining agent any contesting trade union receives less than ten percent of the total votes cast, the registration of the trade union shall stand canceled.
(23) A collective bargaining agent may, without prejudice to its own position, impaled as a party to any preceding under this chapter to which it is itself a party any federation of trade unions of which it is a member.
(24) The collective bargaining agent in relation to an establishment shall be entitled to-
(a) Undertake collective bargaining with the employer on matters connected with the employment, non-employment, non-employment, the term of employment or the conditions of work;
(b) Represent all or any of the workers in any proceedings;
(c) Give notice of, and declare, a strike in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; and
(d) Nominate representatives of workers on the board of trustees of any welfare institutions or provident funds, and of the workers participation fund established under chapter XV,
(e) To conduct cases on behalf of any individual worker or group of workers.
(25) The provisions of this section shall mutatis-mutandis apply to the election or determination of collective bargaining agent in group of establishments under this Act.
205. Participation committee: (1) the employer in an establishment in which fifty or more workers are normally employed shall constitute in the prescribed manner participation
(2) Such committee shall be formed with representatives of the employer and the workers.
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(3) The number of representatives of worker in such committee shall not be less than the number of representatives of the employer,
(4) The representative of the workers shall be appointed on the basis of nomination given by the trade unions in the establishment.
(5) Each of the trade unions, other than the collective bargaining agent, nominating equal number of representatives and the collective bargaining agent nominating representatives, the number of which shall be one more than the total number of representatives nominated by the other trade unions.
(6) In the case of an establishment where there is no trade union, representatives of the workers on a participation committee shall be chosen in the prescribed manner from amongst the workers engaged in the establishment for which the participation committee is constituted.
(7) Where an establishment has any unit in which at least fifty workers are normally employed, a unit participation committee, may, on the recommendation of the participation committee, be constituted in the manner prescribed by Rules.
(8) Such unit committee shall consist of the representatives of the employer sand the workers employed in or under that unit.
(9) The provisions of this section applicable in case of participation committee shall apply to the unit participation committee.
206. Function s of participation committee: (1) the functions of the participation committee shall be of inculcates and develop sense of belonging and workers commitment and, in particular-
(a) To Endeavour to promote mutual trust, understanding and co-operation between the employer and the workers;
(b) to ensure application of labor laws;
(c) To foster a sense of discipline and to improve and maintain safety, occupational health and working condition;
(d) To encourage vocational training, workers education and family welfare training;
(e) To adopt measures for improvement of welfare services for the workers and their
Families;
(f) To fulfill production target, improve productivity, reduce production cost and wastes and raise quality of products.
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(2) A unit participation committee shall, subject to the supervision of the participation committee, discharge, as far as practicable, those functions as the specified in sub-section (1).
207. Meetings of the participation Committee : (1) The participation committee shall meet at
least once in every two months to discuss and exchange views and recommend measures for
performance of the functions under section 202.
(2) The proceedings of every meeting of the participation committee shall be submitted to the
Director of Labour and the conciliator within seven days of the date of the meeting.























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Make Note



In this act Bangladesh labor and industrial law in chapter 13,The trade union has been formed of name and address, adequate facilities for
the inspection thereof by the officers and members of the trade union. The manner in which the trade union may be dissolved and procedure for expressing want of confidence in any officer. It  has a
minimum membership of thirty percent of the total number of workers employed in the
establishment in which it is formed. Trade union has complied
with all the requirements in this note. A group of establishment shall, for the purposes of this section, mean all the establishment,
none of which employs more than twenty workers, in a specified area carrying on the same or
similar specified industry. A trade union for a group of establishments shall be registered, if it has as its members not less
than thiry percent of the total number of workes employed in the entire group of establishments
taken together. Subject to this section other provisions of this chapter shall apply to a trade union formed in a
group of establishments as they apply to a trade union formed in an individual establishment.
The Director of Labour may refuse to register such alteration or change if it is in contravention
of any of the provision of this Chapter, or if it is in violation of the constitution of the trade union.
No worker or employer, shall be entitled to enroll himself,
as, or to continue to be, a member of more than one trade union at the same time. Deliberately fails to take measures recommended by the participation committee. Commence, continue, instigate or incite others to take part in an illegal lockout. The number of representatives of worker in such committee shall not be less than the number of
representatives of the employer, Such unit committee shall consist of the representatives of the employer sand the workers
employed in or under that unit. The proceedings of every meeting of the participation committee shall be submitted to the
Director of Labour and the conciliator within seven days of the date of the meeting. The employer and the
registered trade union shall take necessary measures to implement the specific recommendation of
the Participation committee within the period specified by the committee.







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SAFETY


In this act Bangladesh labor and industrial law in chapter 6, Any building or part of a building or any part of the ways, machinery or plant in an establishment is in such a condition that it is dangerous to human life or safety, it has been properly repaired or altered. Every establishment shall be provided with at least one alternative connection stairway with each floor and such means of escape in case of fire and firefighting apparatus. In every establishment the doors affording exit from any room shall not be locked, if any person is writing the room. Every exit door window or other exit affording shall be distinctively marked in Bangla and in Red letters of adequate size or by some other effective and clearly understood sing. In every establishment every hoist and lift shall be uses thoroughly examined by competent person at least once in every period of six Months,  the maximum safe working load shall be plainly marked on every hoist or lift and no load greater than such load shall be carried thereon, and Where the cage is supported by rope or chain there shall be at least two ropes or chains separately connected with its attachments shall be capable of carrying the whole weight of the cage together with its maximum load. All floors, stairs, passages and gangways shall be of sound construction and properly maintained and where it is necessary to ensure safety steps, stairs, passages and gangways shall be provided with substantial handrails. All floors, ways and stairways shall be clean, wide and clear of all obstructions.























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WORKING HOUR AND LEAVE


In this act Bangladesh labor and industrial law in chapter 9, No adult worker shall ordinarily be required or allowed to work in an establishment for more than eight hours and not exceeding ten hours, more than forty-eight hours in any day and more than forty-eight hours in a week on the average fifty-six hours per week in any year. But any road transport service, the total hours or overtime work in any year shall not exceed one hundred and fifty hours. Industrial establishment, shall be allowed in each week one and half day’s holiday and in factory and establishment one day in a week, but shall be allowed in each week one day’s holiday of twenty four consecutive hours. Extra-allowance for overtime    interim pay at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of basic wage and dearness allowance and ad-hoc, and the rates so fixed shall be deemed to be the ordinary rates of wages of those workers. women can’t work at 10.00PM and 6.00 AM. Any worker shall be no work tow establishment, no person shall be employed as Driver unless he has attained the age of twenty one years and, eighteen years in establishment. Every establishment which is shop or commercial or industrial establishment shall remain entirely closed for at least one and a half day in each week, any day open after the hours of 8.00 O’clock post maritime. Sick leave with full wages for fourteen days in a calendar year, eleven days of paid festival holiday.
























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                                           Conclusion

Contract act is most important part in our business life. If we continue our business successfully, we should know this act appropriately. Employee safety and working hours, holiday and leaves discuss.




Reference


1.      The Contract Act, 1872; Commercial Law and Industrial Law, SEN  & MITRA, Kolkata.


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