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NL · Labour Relations Act (unions and bargaining) · Article 18.1 · clause 18.1 · RSNL1990 c L-1

PART I LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD — Unlawful strikes and lockouts

18.1

(1) Where, on the complaint of a trade union, council of trade unions, employer or employers’ organization, the board is satisfied that

18.1(a)

a trade union or council of trade unions declared or authorized or threatened to declare or authorize an unlawful strike; an employer or employers’ organization declared or authorized or threatened to declare or authorize an unlawful lockout or locked out or threatened to lock out employees; or

18.1(b)

an officer, official or agent of a trade union or council of trade unions counselled or procured or supported or encouraged an unlawful strike or threatened an unlawful strike; an officer, official or agent of an employer or employers’ organization counselled or procured or supported or encouraged an unlawful lockout or threatened an unlawful lockout, the board may declare that the action referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) has occurred and may direct the action a person, employee, employer, employers’ organization, trade union or council of trade unions and their officers, officials or agents shall do or refrain from doing with respect to the unlawful lockout or the threat of an unlawful lockout.

18.1(c)

an employee has engaged in or threatened to engage in an unlawful strike; or

18.1(d)

a person has done or is threatening to do an act that the person knows or ought to know that, as a probable and reasonable consequence of the act, another person or persons will engage in an unlawful strike, the board may declare that an action referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) has occurred and may direct the action a person, employee, employer, employers’ organization, trade union or council of trade unions and their officers, officials or agents shall do or refrain from doing with respect to the unlawful strike or the threat of an unlawful strike.

18.1(2)

Where, on the complaint of a trade union, council of trade unions, employer or employers’ organization, the board is satisfied that

18.1(3)

A directive issued under subsection (1) or (2) is binding upon the person, employee, employer, employers’ organization, trade union, council of trade unions and their officers, officials or agents to whom it is directed with respect to a strike or lockout referred to in that directive and a future strike or lockout that occurs for the same or substantially the same reason.

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