Schedule 7

replace the definition of “industrial action” with —“ “industrial action” means —

any act or omission by a body of persons employed in any trade or industry, acting in combination or under a common understanding, which would result in any limitation or restriction on, or delay in, the performance of any duties connected with their employment;

any act or omission by a body of persons providing any platform service, acting in combination or under a common understanding, which would result in —

the limitation or restriction in the performance of tasks by platform workers in relation to their provision of that platform service; or

the delay in the performance of tasks by platform workers in relation to their provision of that platform service; or

a strike;”;

in the definition of “injury”, after “employment”, insert “, provision of any platform service”;

replace the definition of “lockout” with —“ “lockout” —

in relation to an employer, means the closing of a place of employment or the suspension of work, or the refusal by the employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed by him in consequence of a trade dispute, done with a view to compelling those persons, or to aid another employer in compelling persons employed by him, to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment; or

in relation to a platform operator, has the meaning given by section 19 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;”;

after the definition of “maliciously”, insert —“ “platform operator” has the meaning given by section 4 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;“platform service” has the meaning given by section 3 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;“platform work association” and “registered platform work association” have the meanings given by section 19 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;“platform worker” has the meaning given by section 5(1) of the Platform Workers Act 2024;“strike” means the cessation of work —

by a body of persons employed in any trade or industry acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a common understanding of a number of persons who are, or who have been so employed, to continue to work or to accept employment; or

by a body of platform workers providing any platform service acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a common understanding, of any number of platform workers who are or have been providing any platform service for a platform operator to continue to do so or accept tasks in relation to the provision of that platform service for the platform operator;”;

in the definition of “trade dispute”, replace the full‑stop at the end with a semi‑colon; and

after the definition of “trade dispute”, insert —“ “work dispute” means any dispute between platform workers and one or more platform operators, between platform workers or between platform operators, which is connected with —

whether any person is engaged or otherwise allowed as a platform worker to provide any platform service; or

the terms under which or the conditions in which any platform worker provides a platform service.”.Amendment of section 33. In the TDA, in section 3 —

in subsection (1), replace paragraph (a) with —“(a)it has any object other than the furtherance of —

a trade dispute within the trade or industry in which the persons taking part in the industrial action are engaged; or

a work dispute in respect of the platform service which the persons taking part in the industrial action provide for the platform operator involved in that work dispute;”;

in subsections (1)(b) and (2)(b), after “trade dispute”, insert “or work dispute”; and

in subsection (2), replace paragraph (a) with —“(a)it has any object other than the furtherance of —

a trade dispute within the trade or industry in which the employers locking out are engaged; or

a work dispute in respect of the platform service which the platform operators locking out are engaged in providing through the platform workers involved in that work dispute;”.Amendment of section 84. In the TDA, in section 8 —

in subsection (1), after “any trade union”, insert “or platform work association”;

in subsection (1), replace “the union” with “the trade union or platform work association, as the case may be”;

in subsection (2), after “registered trade union” wherever it appears, insert “or registered platform work association”; and

in subsection (2), after “the trade union”, insert “or platform work association (as the case may be)”.Amendment of section 105. In the TDA, in section 10, after “trade dispute”, insert “, or acting on his or their own behalf or on behalf of a platform work association or of an individual platform operator in contemplation or furtherance of a work dispute,”.Amendment of section 116. In the TDA, in section 11, after “hiring”, insert “, or a platform work agreement within the meaning given by section 2 of the Platform Workers Act 2024,”.Amendment of section 157. In the TDA, in section 15 —

in the section heading, after “trade disputes”, insert “or work disputes”;

in subsection (1), after “employees”, insert “, or a work dispute between platform operators and platform workers,”; and

in subsection (2), after “trade dispute”, insert “or work dispute”.