OES Act 2

Section 2 · Definitions

- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

(a)

"essential service" means -

(i)any service connected with the supply or distribution of water and with the maintenance of water-works;

(ii)any service connected with the maintenance of public health and sanitation, including hospitals and dispensaries;

(iii)any service connected with the production, supply or distribution of electricity including any service under the Orissa State Electricity Board constituted under the Electricity (Supply) Act, 54 of 1948;

(iv)any service connected with transportation of persons/goods;

(b)

"strike" means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any essential service acting in combination or a concerned refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so employed, to work or to accept employment and includes-

(i)unauthorised absence from duty in pursuance of a common understanding among the persons who unauthorisedly absent themselves from duty or under the direction of any other person or persons;

(ii)refusal to work overtime where such work is necessary for the maintenance of any essential service;

(iii)any other conduct which is likely to result in, or results in, cessation or substantial retardation of work in any essential service.

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