(1) No employe: shall dispense with the services of an employee employed continuously for a period of not less than six months, except for a reasonable cause and without giving such employee at least one month's notice or wages in lieu of such notice, provided however that such notice shall not be necessary where the services of such employee aie dispensed with on a charge of misconduct supported by satisfactory evidence recorded at an inquiry held for the purpose.
Eaplanation.—An employee shall be deemed to be employed continuously notwithstanding interruption of service merely on account of sickness or authorised leave or an accident or a strike which is not illegal or a lock-out or a cessation of work which 1s not due to any fault on the part of the employee.
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(2) Any employce whose services are dispensed with may appeal to such authority and within such time as may be prescribed either on the ground that there was no reasonable cause for dispensing with hus services or on the ground that he had not been guilty of misconduct as held by the employer.
(3) The appellate authority may, afte: giving notice m the prescribed manner to the employe: and the employee, dismiss the appeal or direct the remstatement of the employee with or without wages for the period he was kept out of employment or duect payment of compensation without reimstatement or grant such other 1elief as it deems fit in the circumstances of the case.
(4) In directing the remstatement of an employee, the appellate authority shall also direct the payment of such amount of compensation as may be specified by him in case the employer fails to remstate the employee in accordance with the directions.
_ ., (5) The decision of the appellate authority shal] be final and binding on both the parties, shall not be liable to be questioned in any Court of Law and shall be given effect to within such time as may be specified im the order of the appellate authority.
(6) Any compensation required to be paid by the employer under sub-sections (3) and (4) but not paid by him shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue unde: the provisions of the Revenue Recovery Act for the time being in force. °