Transport Act, 1958
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Compensation of employees whose services are dispensed with or conditions worsened. |
14.—(1) Whenever the Board ceases to provide or permanently reduces any transport service by rail or inland waterway or substitutes diesel for steam traction or whenever an order is made under section 9 in relation to a specified level crossing and as a consequence thereof the Board, within five years after the passing of this Act, either dispenses with the services of an officer or servant of the Board or transfers him to another position in its service the provisions of this section shall have effect. | |
(2) This section applies only to an officer or servant who at the date of his dismissal or transfer was employed in a permanent capacity or who was, except for casual interruptions of employment, employed by the Board during the whole of the preceding three years. | ||
(3) If the Board dispenses with his services he shall be paid by the Board compensation calculated in accordance with the Second Schedule. | ||
(4) If he is transferred to another position and thereby suffers a worsening of his conditions of service, within the meaning of section 37 of the Act of 1950, as an officer or servant of the Board he shall be paid by the Board compensation consisting of a lump sum of such amount as is reasonable. | ||
(5) Sections 41, 42 and 43 of the Act of 1950 (which relate to the determination of compensation under that Act) shall apply to compensation under this section. | ||
(6) The Minister may by order extend the provisions of this section to any case in which, within five years after the passing of this Act, the services of an officer or servant are dispensed with or he is transferred to another position because of redundancy arising from any scheme for the re-organisation and more economical operation of any department of the undertaking affecting any section or category of workers, and may by order amend any such order. |