 bill no xxv of 2012 the industrial disputes (amendment) bill, 2012 a billfurther to amend the industrial disputes act, 1947be  it enacted  by parliament in the sixty-third year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the industrial disputes (amendment) act, 2012short title and commencement(2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appointamendment of section 2 statement  of  objects  and  reasonsthe sub-clause (iv) of clause (s) of section 2 of the industrial disputes act, 1947provides that the persons getting wages exceeding ten thousand rupees per mensem do not come in the periphery of the act in today's world of money inflation, high prices and salaries, imposing ceiling on the wages for denying the benefits of the act in resolving the disputes with their employer is totally unjust at least all the workers getting wages upto rupees twenty thousand should be entitled to get the benefit of the industrial disputes actthe bill proposing amendment in the section 2 of the act seeks to achieve the aforesaid objectiveshence  this  billrama  chandra  khuntia extracts from the  industrial disputes act, 1947 (act no 14 of 1947)     2 definitions—in this act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject of context—  [(s) "workman" means any person (including an apprentice) employed in any industry to do any manual, unskilled, skilled, technical, operational, clerical or supervisory work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied, and for the purposes of any proceeding under this act in relation to an industrial dispute, includes any such person who has been dismissed, discharged or retrenched in connection with, or as a consequence of, that dispute, or whose dismissal, discharge or retrenchment has led to that dispute, but does not include any such person—  (i)  (ii)  (iii)  (iv) who, being employed in a supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding ten thousand rupees per mensem or exercises, either by the nature of the duties attached to the office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature]      rajya sabha———— a billfurther to amend the industrial disputes act, 1947————(shri rama chandra khuntia, mp)mgipmrnd—2094rs(s3)—09-08-2012