22Offer and acceptance of employment
1[(1) Every employer shall formulate its own policy for recruiting any apprentice who has completed the period of apprenticeship training in his establishment.]
(2) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1), where there is a condition in a contract of apprenticeship that the apprentice shall, after the successful completion of the apprenticeship training, serve the employer, the employer shall, on such completion, be bound to offer suitable employment to the apprentice, and the apprentice shall be bound to serve the employer in that capacity for such period and on such remuneration as may be specified in the contract:
Provided that where such period or remuneration is not, in the opinion of the Apprenticeship Adviser, reasonable, he may revise such period or remuneration so as to make it reasonable, and the period or remuneration so revised shall be deemed to be the period or remuneration agreed to between the apprentice and the employer.
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1. Subs. by Act 29 of 2014, s. 12, for sub-section (1) (w.e.f. 22-12-2014).
- 3 Qualifications for being engaged as an apprentice
- 3A Reservation of training places for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in designated trades
- 3B Reservation of training places for Other Backward Classes in designated trades
- 4 Contract of apprenticeship
- 5 Novation of contract of apprenticeship
- 5A Regulation of optional trade
- 5B Engagement of apprentices from other States
- 6 Period of apprenticeship training
- 7 Termination of apprenticeship contract
- 8 Number of apprentices for a designated trade
- 9 Practical and basic training of apprentices
- 10 Related instruction of apprentices
- 11 Obligations of employers
- 12 Obligations of apprentices
- 13 Payment to apprentices
- 14 Health, safety and welfare of apprentices
- 15 Hours of work, overtime, leave and holidays
- 16 Employer‟s liability for compensation for injury
- 17 Conduct and discipline
- 18 Apprentices are trainees and not workers
- 19 Records and returns
- 20 Settlement of disputes
- 21 Holding of test and grant of certificate and conclusion of training
- 22 Offer and acceptance of employment