Industrial Relations Act 1960 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Miscellaneous
79. Inducing persons not to join trade unions or platform work associations
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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
a member or officer of a platform work association or an association that has applied to be registered as a platform work association; or
to cease to be —
a member or officer of a trade union or an association that has applied to be registered as a trade union; or
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.
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.
employer
“employer” means any person who employs another person under a contract of service and includes —(a)the Government in respect of such categories, classes or descriptions of officers or servants of the Government as from time to time are declared by the President of Singapore to be employees for the purposes of this Act;(b)a statutory authority;(c)a duly authorised agent or manager of an employer;(d)a person who owns, or is carrying on, or is for the time being responsible for the management or control of a profession, business, trade or work in which an employee is engaged;(e)for the purposes of Parts 5, 6 and 7, the transferor of an undertaking whose employment of employees is transferred by virtue of section 18A of the Employment Act 1968;