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Legal definition is found in SCHEDULE I of [MODEL STANDING ORDERS IN RESPECT OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS which provides the following
2. Classification of workmen.--(a) Workmen shall be classified as --
(1) permanent,
(2) Probationers,
(3) badlis,
(4) temporary,
(5) casual,
(6) apprentices.
(b) A “permanent workman” is a workman who has been engaged on a permanent basis and includes any person who has satisfactorily completed a probationary period of three months in the same or another occupation in the industrial establishment, including breaks due to sickness, accident, leave, lock-out, strike (not being an illegal strike) or involuntary closure of the establishment.
(c) A “probationer” is a workman who is provisionally employed to fill a permanent vacancy in a post and has not completed three months’ service therein. If a permanent employee is employed as a probationer in a new post he may, at any time during the probationary period of three months, be reverted to his old permanent post.
(d) A “badli” is a workman who is appointed in the post of a permanent workman or probationer who is temporarily absent.
(e) A “temporary workman” is a workman who has been engaged for work which is of an essentially temporary nature likely to be finished within a limited period.
(f) A “casual workman” is a workman whose employment is of a casual nature.
(g) An “apprentice” is a learner who is paid an allowance during the period of his training.
In establishments (d) above is not in vogue whereas the other are .
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