'lay-off means the failure, refusal or inability of an employer on account of shortage of coal, power or raw material or the accumulation of stock or the break-down of machinery or for any other reason, to give employment to a worker whose name is borne on the muster-rolls of his shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment.

[See, section 2(1), the Employment of Labour (Standing Orders) Act, 1965 (East Pakistan Act No. VIII of 1965)] [Now stands repealed]