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Part 9 · Miscellaneous

79. Inducing persons not to join trade unions or platform work associations

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Last amended by an amending law of 2024. 3 amendments in all.

(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 —

(i)

a member or officer of a trade union or an association that has applied to be registered as a trade union; or

(ii)

a member or officer of a platform work association or an association that has applied to be registered as a platform work association; or

(b)

to cease to be —

(i)

a member or officer of a trade union or an association that has applied to be registered as a trade union; or

(ii)

a member or officer of a platform work association or an association that has applied to be registered as a platform work 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.

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