Basic features of the code of discipline are mentioned below:
The code voluntarily binds the employers and workers to settle all grievances and disputes by mutual negotiations, conciliation and voluntary arbitration.
1. Both employers and employees should recognise the rights and responsibilities of each other and should willingly discharge their respective obligations. There should be no unilateral action on either side.
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2. There should be no strike or lockout without proper notice and efforts should be made to settle all disputes thought the existing machinery for the settlement of industrial disputes.
3. Neither party will have recourse to coercion, intimidation, litigation and victimisation but will settle all differences by mutual negotiations, conciliation and voluntary arbitration.
4. A mutually agreed grievance procedure will be set up and both the parties will abide by it without taking arbitrary action.
5. Both employers and trade unions will educate their members regarding their mutual obligations.
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6. Management will not increase workloads without prior agreement or settlement with the workers.
7. Employers will take prompt action for the settlement of grievances and for the implementation of all awards and agreements.
8. Management will take immediate action against all officers found guilty of provoking indiscipline among workers.
9. The employers will provide all facilities for the unfettered growth of trade unions. They will recognise unions according to the criteria laid down in the code. They will discourage the use of unfair labour practices like victimisation of members of recognised trade unions.
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10. Unions will avoid demonstrations, rowdyism and all forms of physical duress and workers will not indulge in union activities during working hours.
11. Unions will discourage negligence of duty, damage to property, careless operation, go-slow tactics, insubordination and other unfair labour practices on the part of workers. They will also take action against their office bearers and members who work against the spirit of the code.
Thus, the code of discipline consists of three sets of principles, mainly, (a) obligations to be observed by management, (b) obligations to be observed by trade unions, and (c) principles binding on both the parties.
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