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With the arrival of more number of automobile units, manufacture of accessories and auto components will also come up in the State which may lead to spurt in employment and recent memorandum of understanding signed with the Government by automobile Tyre manufactures like Michelin, Bridgestone is example for employment growth.

In labour management relations, the concept of public utility service will provide dual protection. The legal weapon available in the process of industrial relations is strike to workers and lock-out to managements. As we have seen in the past, especially in multinational Companies, even the slightest provocation in the form of wild cat strikes, minor scuffles, in-plant slow down, disobedience or any of this sort tend the management to declare partial lock out on the workers who had provoked such act of concerted refusal. In a sense, the managements simply declare such kind of imposed lockouts on selected workmen thereby deprive them their right of agitation in any form and silence them by separating them from the regular workforce. When the industry is declared as Public Utility Service, the managements are restricted from such unilateral action without any valid reason. It imposes certain kind of curb on the part of the employers and desist them from their sweet will to punish the workers. In nutshell, the employers in PUS are under obligation to follow strictly the procedures before declaring any lock out so that the interest of workers is protected.