Standing Orders - Certified Standing Orders

Dear Sir/Madam,
Warm greetings to you. Our company wants to frame certified standing orders. I would like to know the basic requirements, or in other words, the Acts and Laws that we need to compliant with before framing the standing orders. I was able to loacate the draft standing orders and the proceedure. Please help me with this regard.
I have a few more questions :
1. Is it mandatory to have a Union in the factory to frame standing orders?
2. What is the minimum number of employees to be present?
3. What are the Acts and Laws that we need to be compliant with before framing standing orders
Please help me in this regard
Thanks
Suchitra

Please go through the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946.
The above Act makes it obligatory on the part of all employers employing not less than 100 employees( in many States it is 50 employees) to draft and certify standing orders of the company. A model standing orders is also given in the Act.
There is no need to have a union (trade union) for framing a standing order.
It is always desirable for any company- whether employing less than what is specified in the Act- to have standing orders of itsown because the standing orders define the relationship between the employer and the employees.
Regards,
Madhu.T.K
Regards,
Madhu.T.K

Hi Friends,
Warm greetings to you. Can any one help with Model Standing Orders of any Company (under Shops and Establishments Act)?
Thanks & regards,
Rajesh Dalvi

Please follow the link.
Madhu.T.K: Standing Orders
Regards,
Madhu.T.K

Which kind of agreement or settlement can be made between union and the management.
if any draft copy please give me attachment.
Thanks
Ms. Binal Kapadia
Ankleshwar (Gujarat)

Dear friends,
pls help clarifying:
a. Whether s.o.is to be framed n certified per establishment or per company applicable io all estb of it throughout a state or whole ofindia?