Singapore legislation
Section 79
Section 79
Inducing persons not to join trade unions
(1)
A person who, by conferring or procuring or offering to confer or procure any advantage on or for any person, induces or attempts to induce a person —
not to become a member or officer of a trade union or an association that has applied to be registered as a trade union; or
to cease to be a member or officer of a trade union or of any such association,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction by a District Court to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
(2)
It shall not be an offence for an employer to require, as a condition of the appointment or promotion of a person to a position of an executive employee as described in section 17(3), that the person shall not be or continue to be an officer or a member of a particular trade union unless that trade union is a trade union whose constitution and rules restrict its membership to executive employees.