Grievance Redressal Committee is it a necessity?

As per the amended provisions of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 w.e.f. 15.09.2010, provide that every industrial establishment employee twenty or more workmen shall have one or more Grievance Redressal Committee as per norms which is given below for the resolution of disputes.

1.       The Grievance Redressal Committee shall consist of equal number of members from the employer and the workmen.

2.       The chairperson of the Grievance Redressal Committee shall be selected from the employer and from along the workmen alternatively on rotation basis every year.

3.       The total number of members of the Grievance Redressal Committee shall not exceed more than six, provided that there shall be, as far as possible, one woman member if the Grievance Redressal Committee has two members and in case the numbers of members are more than two, the number of women members may be increased proportionately.

4.       Notwithstanding anything contain in section 9C of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, providing for setting up of Grievance Redressal Machinery, the setting up of Grievance Redressal Committee shall not affect the right of the workman to raise industrial dispute on the same matter under the provisions of said Act.

5.       The Grievance Redressal Committee may complete its proceedings within thirty days on receipt of a written application by or on behalf of the aggrieved party.

6.       The workman who is aggrieved of the decision of the Grievance Redressal Committee may prefer an appeal to the employer against the decision of Grievance Redressal Committee and the employer shall, within one month from the date of receipt of such appeal, dispose of the same and send a copy of his decision to the workman concerned.

Nothing contained in section 9C of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 shall apply to the workmen for whom there is an established Grievance Redressal mechanism in the establishment concerned.

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