Acts and Regulations

I-4 - Industrial Relations Act

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Offences respecting unlawful strike or lock-out
109(1)Every employer or employers’ organization, and every person acting on behalf of an employer or employers’ organization, who alters a wage rate or alters any term or condition of employment contrary to section 35 is guilty of an offence and, on conviction, is liable to a fine not exceeding
(a) ten dollars in respect of each employee whose wage rate was so altered or whose term or condition of employment was so altered, or
(b) two hundred and fifty dollars,
whichever is the less, for each day during which any such alteration continues contrary to this Act.
109(2)Every employer or employers’ organization who declares or causes a lock-out contrary to this Act is guilty of an offence and, on conviction, is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for each day that the lock-out exists.
109(3)Every person acting on behalf of an employer or employers’ organization who declares or causes a lock-out contrary to this Act is guilty of an offence and, on conviction, is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for each day that the lock-out exists.
109(4)Every trade union or council of trade unions that declares or causes a strike contrary to this Act is guilty of an offence and, on conviction, is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for each day that the strike exists.
109(5)Every person acting on behalf of a trade union or council of trade unions who declares or causes a strike contrary to this Act is guilty of an offence and, on conviction, is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for each day that the strike exists.
109(6)Every employer, employers’ organization, trade union, council of trade unions, or person acting on behalf of an employer, employers’ organization, trade union or council of trade unions, or any other person, who takes, authorizes or participates in a lock-out vote or in a strike vote, as may be the case, contrary to this Act, is guilty of an offence and, on conviction, is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
1971, c.9, s.110; 1990, c.22, s.26