The Labour Relations Act regulates all industrial action, including strikes, lockouts and picketing. It provides for employees' constitutional to strike and gives effect to employers' right to seek recourse via lockouts. When Can a Worker Strike and an Employer Lock Out? What Is a Lockout? A lockout Strikes and lockouts may be held over disputes about matters of mutual interest between employers and is when an their employees. employer These include: decides to withhold wage increases, work from a demand to establish or join a bargaining council, employees a demand to recognise a union as a collective bargaining agent, or closes a demand for organisational rights, down the a demand to suspend or negotiate unilateral changes in the workplace, workplace any unprotected lockout or strike by the other party, and/or during a dispute. Workers have a constitutional right to strike, but they must follow proper procedure. in some circumstances workers may strike over retrenchments. Strikes
The Labour Relations Act regulates all industrial action, including strikes, lockouts and picketing. It provides for employees' constitutional to strike and gives effect to employers' right to seek recourse via lockouts. When Can a Worker Strike and an Employer Lock Out? Strikes and lockouts may be held over disputes about matters of mutual interest between employers and their employees. These include: wage increases, a demand to establish or join a bargaining council, a demand to recognise a union as a collective bargaining agent, a demand for organisational rights, a demand to suspend or negotiate unilateral changes in the workplace, any unprotected lockout or strike by the other party, and/or What Is a Lockout? A lockout is when an employer decides to withhold work from employees or closes down the workplace during a dispute. Workers have a constitutional right to strike, but they must follow proper procedure. in some circumstances workers may strike over retrenchments. Strikes
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