s 2 Interpretation
2. In this Act —“award” means an award made by an Industrial Arbitration Court and includes a collective agreement a memorandum of the terms of which has been certified by the president of the Industrial Arbitration Court in accordance with the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act 1960; “industrial action” means —(a) any act or omission by a body of persons employed in any trade or industry, acting in combination or under a common understanding, which would result in any limitation or restriction on, or delay in, the performance of any duties connected with their employment; (b) any act or omission by a body of persons providing any platform service, acting in combination or under a common understanding, which would result in —(i) the limitation or restriction in the performance of tasks by platform workers in relation to their provision of that platform service; or (ii) the delay in the performance of tasks by platform workers in relation to their provision of that platform service; or (c) a strike;[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] “injury” means injury to a person in respect of his business, occupation, employment, provision of any platform service or other source of income and includes any actionable wrong;[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] “intimidate” means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable apprehension of injury to him or to any member of his family or to any of his dependants or of violence or damage to any person or property; “lockout” —(a) in relation to an employer, means the closing of a place of employment or the suspension of work, or the refusal by the employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed by him in consequence of a trade dispute, done with a view to compelling those persons, or to aid another employer in compelling persons employed by him, to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment; or (b) in relation to a platform operator, has the meaning given by section 19 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] “maliciously” means the doing of a wrongful act intentionally without just cause or excuse; “platform operator” has the meaning given by section 4 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] “platform service” has the meaning given by section 3 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] “platform work association” and “registered platform work association” have the meanings given by section 19 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] “platform worker” has the meaning given by section 5(1) of the Platform Workers Act 2024;[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] “strike” means the cessation of work —(a) by a body of persons employed in any trade or industry acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a common understanding of a number of persons who are, or who have been so employed, to continue to work or to accept employment; or (b) by a body of platform workers providing any platform service acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a common understanding, of any number of platform workers who are or have been providing any platform service for a platform operator to continue to do so or accept tasks in relation to the provision of that platform service for the platform operator;[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] “trade dispute” means any dispute between employers and employees or between employees and employees, or between employers and employers which is connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of employment or the conditions of labour, of any person;[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025] “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 any person is engaged or otherwise allowed as a platform worker to provide any platform service; or (b) the terms under which or the conditions in which any platform worker provides a platform service.[Act 30 of 2024 wef 01/01/2025]