Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 · Chapter VA: Lay-Off and Retrenchment
Section 25A: Application of sections 25C to 25E
The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 was repealed and replaced by the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
In plain words
The lay-off rules in sections 25C to 25E do not apply to establishments covered by Chapter VB, to establishments with less than fifty workmen on average per working day in the previous month, or to seasonal or intermittent establishments.
- The government's decision on whether an establishment is seasonal or intermittent is final.
- Here an industrial establishment means a factory, a mine or a plantation.
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Official text
(1) Sections 25C to 25E inclusive [shall not apply to industrial establishments to which Chapter VB applies, or—]
(a) to industrial establishments in which less than fifty workmen on an average per working day have been employed in the preceding calendar month; or
(b) to industrial establishments which are of a seasonal character or in which work is performed only intermittently.
(2) If a question arises whether an industrial establishment is of a seasonal character or whether work is performed therein only intermittently, the decision of the appropriate Government thereon shall be final. [Explanation.—In this section and in sections 25C, 25D and 25E, “industrial establishment” means—
(i) a factory as defined in clause (m) of section 2 of the Factories Act 1948 (63 of 1948); or
(ii) a mine as defined in clause (i) of section 2 of the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952); or
(iii) a plantation as defined in clause (f) of section 2 of the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951).]
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.