Singapore legislation

Section 79

of Industrial Relations Act 1960

Section 79

Inducing persons not to join trade unions

Amended by36/20101/2015

(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 —

(a)

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

(b)

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.

Amended by36/2010

(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.

Amended by1/2015
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