Industrial Relations Act 1960 - Singapore Statutes Online

Inducing persons not to join trade unions

79.—(1) 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 —

(a)	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
(b)	to cease to be a member or officer of a trade union or of any such 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.

[36/2010]

(2) 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.

[1/2015]

Employers not to discriminate against members of trade unions

80. Any employer who, in the engagement of persons for employment, discriminates against a person by reason of the circumstance that that person —

(a)	is or proposes to become an officer or member of a trade union or an association that has applied to be registered as a trade union;
(b)	will, if engaged, be entitled to the benefit of a collective agreement or an award; or
(c)	has appeared as a witness, or has given any evidence, in any proceeding under this Act,

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.

[36/2010]

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