s 79 Inducing persons not to join trade unions or platform work associations
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 —(i) a member or officer of a trade union or an association that has applied to be registered as a trade union; or (ii) a member or officer of a platform work association or an association that has applied to be registered as a platform work association; or[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] (b) to cease to be —(i) a member or officer of a trade union or an association that has applied to be registered as a trade union; or (ii) a member or officer of a platform work association or an association that has applied to be registered as a platform work 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] [Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] (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]