law: Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
  31.Notice of dismissal.- 
  (1) No employer shall dispense with the services
  
  of an employee who has been employed for a period of six months or more, except
  
  for a reasonable cause, and without giving such employee at least one month's
  
  notice or wages in lieu of such notice.
  
  Provided that such notice shall not be necessary if the services of such
  
  employee are dispensed with on a charge of misconduct supported by satisfactory
  
  evidence recorded at an inquiry held by the employer for the purpose.
  (2) (a) The employee discharged, dismissed or retrenched 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 his service or on the ground
  
  that he had not been guilty of misconduct as held by the employer or on the
  
  ground that such punishment of discharge or dismissal was severe.
  (b) The appellate authority may, after giving notice in the prescribed manner
  
  to the employer and the employee, dismiss the appeal or direct the
  
  reinstatement of the employee with or without wages for the period during which
  
  he was kept out of employment or direct payment of compensation without
  
  reinstatement or grant such other relief as it deems fit in the circumstances
  
  of the case.
  (3) The decision of the 
  
  appellate authority shall be final and binding on both the parties and be given 
  
  effect to within such time as may be specified in the order of the appellate 
  
  authority