Section 98 in The Employees' State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950
98. Discharge, etc., of employee under certain conditions. -If the conditions of service of any employee so allow, an employer may discharge or reduce on due notice an employee,-(i) who has been in receipt of disablement benefit for temporary disablement, after he has been in receipt of such benefit for a continuous period of six months or more;
(ii)who has been under medical treatment for sickness other than tuberculosis, leprosy, mental or malignant diseases or has been absent from work as a result of illness 91 [***] duly certified in accordance with these regulations to arise out of the pregnancy or confinement rendering the employee unfit for work, after the employee has been under such treatment or has been absent from work for a continuous period of six months or more;[(iii) who has been under medical treatment for any of the following diseases, duly certified in accordance with these regulations, after the employee has been under such treatment for a continuous period of 18 months or more, notwithstanding provision of clauses (i) and (ii): Diseases(I)Infectious Diseases(1) Tuberculosis(2)Leprosy(3)Chronic Empyema(4)Bronchiactesis(5)Interstitial Lung Disease(6)Aids(II)Neoplasms(7) Malignant Diseases(III)Endocrine Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders(8) Diabetes mellitus with proliferative retinopathy/diabetic foot/nephropathy(IV)Disorders of Nervous System(9) Monoplegia(10)Hemiplegia(11)Paraplegia(12)Hemiparesis(13)Intracranial Space Occupying Lesion(14)Parkinson's disease(15)Spinal Cord Compression(16)Myaesthenia Gravis/Neuromuscular Dystrophies(V)Diseases of Eye(17) Immature Cataract with vision 6/6 or less(18)Detachment of Retina(19)Glaucoma(VI)Diseases of Cardiovascular System(20) Coronary Artery Disease(a) Unstable Angina(b)Myocardial infraction with ejection less than 45%(21)Congestive Heart Failure: Left Right(22)Cardiac Vascular Diseases with failure/complications(23)Cardiomyopathies(24)Heart Disease with Surgical Intervention along with complications(VII)Chest Diseases(25) Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD) with congestive heart failure (Cor Pulmonale)(VIII)Diseases of the Digestive System(26) Cirrhosis of liver with ascities/chronic active hepatitis(IX)Orthopaedic Diseases(27) Dislocation of vertebra/prolapse of intervertebral disc(28)Non-union or delayed union of fracture(29)Post-Traumatic Surgical amputations of lower extremity(30)Compound fracture with chronic osteomyelitis(X)Psychoses(31) Sub-groups under this are listed for clarification(a) Schizophrenia(b)Endogenous depression(c)Manic Depressive psychosis (MDF)(d)Dementia(XI)Others(32) More than 20% burns with infection/complication(33)Chronic Renal Failure(34)Reynaud's disease/Burger's disease.]]
