My dear anonymous friend,
Certain questions of law, at times, cannot be answered clear cut in isolation of the facts underlying such questions.
Your piecemeal queries after every response without giving complete facts pertaining to the so-called Company, it's H.O and it's branches including different manufacturing facilities compels me to suspect the very purpose of your questions for which, infact, I am very sorry.
Generally, questions in law can be purely academic as well as arising out of real life situations. Particularly in case of the latter, transparency is of much importance to get an appropriate answer without the intention to circumvent the provisions of law. As the citeHR being an open forum, the principles of ethics prevent the resource persons to encourage such questions.
With the above caveat, let me browse over the various provisions of the ID Act,1947 relevant to the thread under discussion from which I hope that you can cull out the answer yourself.
Chapter V-A of the Act deals with lay off and retrenchment in general as well as in particular to certain industrial establishments.
Chapter V-B of the Act deals with special provisions relating to lay off, retrenchment and closure in respect of certain industrial establishments.
Both the chapters have their own definitions of the term " industrial establishment " for the respective purpose of the chapter. If any difficulty in interpretation arises with reference to the purpose, it has to be resolved falling back on the definition of the term " industrial establishment or undertaking " as defined u/s 2(ka) of the Act.
Now, please decide for yourself by matching the actual facts of the issue.