§ 19 — Interpretation of this Part

19. In this Part —“delegate”, in relation to a platform work association, means a person who is elected or appointed in accordance with the rules of the platform work association to attend and vote at a meeting of the platform work association on behalf of any number of members of the platform work association;

“executive” means the body, by whatever name called, to which the management of the affairs of a platform work association or any branch of a platform work association is entrusted;

“industrial action” means the adoption, in furtherance of a work dispute, of any practice, procedure or method in the provision of a platform service which would result in the limitation or restriction in the performance of tasks by platform workers in relation to the provision of that platform service;

“lockout” means —(a)

the suspension or termination by a platform operator of the right or ability of any number of platform workers to obtain tasks assigned or facilitated by the platform operator; or

(b)

the refusal of a platform operator to assign tasks to, or facilitate tasks for, any number of platform workers,

in consequence of a work dispute, where the suspension, termination or refusal (as the case may be) is with a view to —

(c)

compelling those platform workers to accept terms or conditions of, or affecting the provision of, any platform service by those platform workers for that platform operator; or

(d)

aiding another platform operator in compelling platform workers of that platform operator to accept terms or conditions of, or affecting the provision of, any platform service by those platform workers for the other platform operator;

“officer”, in relation to a platform work association —(a)

includes any member of the executive of the platform work association and any member of any committee, provision for which is made in the rules of the platform work association; but

(b)

does not include an auditor;

“platform work association” means any association or combination of platform workers or platform operators, whether temporary or permanent, whose principal object is to regulate relations between platform workers and platform operators for all or any of the following purposes:(a)

to promote good industrial relations between platform workers and platform operators;

(b)

to improve the working conditions of platform workers or enhance their economic and social status;

(c)

to achieve the raising of productivity for the benefit of platform workers, platform operators and the economy of Singapore;

“Register” means the register of platform work associations kept and maintained by the Registrar under section 21;

“registered office” means the office of a platform work association which is registered under this Part as the head office of the platform work association;

“registered platform work association” means a platform work association registered under this Part;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of Platform Work Associations appointed under section 20(1)(a) and includes any Assistant Registrar of Platform Work Associations appointed under section 20(1)(b);

“requisite consent”, in relation to a platform work association, means the consent, obtained by secret ballot, of —(a)

the majority of the members of the platform work association voting on their own behalf on the matter for which consent is sought; or

(b)

where the rules of the platform work association allow or require a decision on that matter to be taken by means of voting by delegates and the decision is taken using that means — two‑thirds of the total number of delegates representing the members;

“strike” means —(a)

the cessation of the provision of a platform service by a body of platform workers providing that platform service acting in combination; or

(b)

a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a common understanding, of any number of platform workers who are or have been providing a platform service for a platform operator to continue to do so or to accept tasks to provide that platform service allocated or facilitated by a platform operator,

where the cessation or refusal (as the case may be) is in furtherance of a work dispute;

“work dispute” means any dispute between platform workers and one or more platform operators, between platform workers or between platform operators, which is connected with —(a)

whether a person is engaged or otherwise allowed to provide any platform service for a platform operator; or

(b)

the terms under which or the conditions in which a platform worker provides a platform service.