2. Interpretation

In this Act —“award” means an award made by an Industrial Arbitration Court and includes a collective agreement a memorandum of the terms of which has been certified by the president of the Industrial Arbitration Court in accordance with the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act 1960;“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;“injury” means injury to a person in respect of his business, occupation, employment, provision of any platform service or other source of income and includes any actionable wrong;“intimidate” means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable apprehension of injury to him or to any member of his family or to any of his dependants or of violence or damage to any person or property;“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;“maliciously” means the doing of a wrongful act intentionally without just cause or excuse;“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;“trade dispute” means any dispute between employers and employees or between employees and employees, or between employers and employers which is connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of employment or the conditions of labour, of any person;“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.