Trade Unions Act · 2023 Revised Edition
19. Prohibition on employers and their trade union in respect of certain acts
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
No employer or trade union of employers, and no person acting on behalf of an employer or such trade union, shall —
impose any condition in a contract of employment seeking to restrain the right of a person who is a party to the contract to join a trade union, or to continue his membership in a trade union;
refuse to employ any person on the ground that he is or is not a member or an officer of a trade union;
discriminate against any person in regard to employment, promotion, condition of employment or working conditions, on the ground that he is or is not a member or officer of a trade union;
dismiss or threaten to dismiss a worker, injure or threaten to injure him in his employment or alter or threaten to alter his position to his prejudice by reason that the worker —
is or proposes to become, or seeks to persuade any other person to become, a member or officer of a trade union;
or
participates in the promotion, formation or activities of a trade union; or
induce a person to refrain from becoming or to cease to be a member or officer of a trade union by conferring or offering to confer any advantage on or by procuring or offering to procure any advantage for any person.
Any employer or trade union of employers, or any person acting on behalf of an employer or such trade union, who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $6,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both.
trade union
“trade union” means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, the principal purposes of which are under its constitution the regulation of the relations between workers and employers, or between workers and workers, or between employers and employers, whether such combination would or would not, if this Act had not been enacted, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade;
Trade Unions
Provisions of Societies Act (Chapter 203) and Companies Act
Terms defined in s 2
trade union
Defined · s 2“trade union” means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, the principal purposes of which are under its constitution the regulation of the relations between workers and employers, or between workers and workers, or between employers and employers, whether such combination would or would not, if this Act had not been enacted, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade;
worker
Defined · s 2“worker” means any person who has entered into or works under a contract with an employer in any capacity, whether the contract is express or implied, oral or in writing, and whether it is a contract of service or of apprenticeship or a contract personally to execute any work or labour and includes any person ordinarily employed under any such contract, whether such person is or is not in employment at any particular time.