The failure, refusal or inability or n employer on account of shortage of coal, power or raw materials or the accumulation of stocks or the breakdown of machinery is called __________.

layoff

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retrenchment

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discharge

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dismissal

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Solution

The correct option is A layoff
Under Section 2(kkk), Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, “Lay-off” means the failure, refusal or inability of an employer on account of shortage of coal, power or raw materials or the accumulation of stocks or the breakdown of machinery [or natural calamity or for any other connected reason] to give employment to a workman whose name is borne on the muster rolls of his industrial establishment and who has not been retrenched.

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