Section 26 of The Labour Relations Act 2007: Amalgamation of trade unions, employers’ organisations or federations

(1) A trade union, employers’ organisation or federation may resolve to― (a) change or replace its constitution; or (b) change its name. (2) A registered trade union, employer’s organisation or...

(1) The Registrar shall cancel or suspend the registration of a trade union, employers’ organisation or federation if― (a) the trade union, employers organisation or federation is dissolved; or (b)...

(1) When a trade union, employers’ organisation or federation is dissolved, the trade union, employers’ organisation or federation shall give notice of the dissolution in Form O set out in the Second...

Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Registrar made under this Act may appeal to the Industrial Court against that decision within thirty days of the decision.

(1) The officials of a trade union or employers’ organisation shall be persons who are, or have been, engaged or employed in the sector for which the trade union or employers’ organisation is...

An employee who has not attained the age of eighteen years but appears to be above the apparent age of sixteen years may be a member of― (a) a trade union and, unless the constitution provides...

No person shall be a voting member of – (a) a trade union unless that person is employed in the sector for which the trade union is registered; (b) an employers’ organisation unless that person has...

(1) The election of officials of a trade union, employers’ organisation or federation shall be conducted in accordance with their registered constitutions. (2) The constitution of a trade union,...

(1) A trade union, employers’ organisation or federation shall exhibit prominently― (a) in its registered office, a notice giving the names of all officials and their titles; (b) in every branch...

(1) The constitution of a trade union, employer’s organisation and federation shall provide― (a) for the appointment or election of at least three trustees; and (b) for the filling of any vacancy in...

1) All property, whether movable or immovable, of a registered trade union, employers’ organisation or federation shall vest in its trustees for the use and benefit of the trade union, employer’s...

Upon any change in the office of any trustee, the property of a registered trade union, employers’ organisation or federation shall vest in the trustees for the time being of the union for the same...

Subject to its rules and the provisions of this Act, the funds of a trade union, employers’ organisation or federation may be used only for the following purposes - (a) the payment of salaries,...

The funds of a trade union, employers’ organisation or federation shall not be used, either directly or indirectly, to pay the whole or part of a fine or penalty imposed upon a person by sentence or...

(1) The Industrial Court may grant an injunction restraining unauthorized or unlawful expenditure of the funds of a trade union, employer’s organisation or federation on application by the Registrar,...

(1) In this section, “official” means the treasurer of a trade union, employers’ organisation or federation and every other official responsible for the accounts of a trade union, employers’...

(1) The authorised representative of a registered trade union, employers’ organisation, or federation shall furnish annually by a prescribed date to the Registrar a general statement of all receipts...

The accounts of a trade union, employers’ organisation or federation and a list of its members shall be open to inspection by – (a) an official or member of a trade union, employer’s organisation or...

A person who obstructs or impedes the Registrar, or any person authorized by the Registrar, from inspecting the accounts of a trade union, employers’ organisation or federation or the list of its...

(1) The Registrar may, at any time, call upon the treasurer, the executive or management board by whatever name called, or any other official of a trade union or employers’ organisation to render...

(1) The Industrial Court may – (a) order any person who has in his possession or control any property of a trade union, employers’ organisation or federation in violation of its rules or who has...

(1) In this Part, “trade union dues” means a regular subscription required to be paid to a trade union by a member of the trade union as a condition of membership. (2) A trade union may, in the...

(1) A trade union that has concluded a collective agreement registered by the Industrial Court with an employer, group of employers or an employers’ organisation, setting terms and conditions of...

(1) Any amount deducted in accordance with the provisions of this Part shall be paid into the designated trade union, or employers’ organisation account within ten days of the deduction being...

The Minister may make regulations providing for the collection from employees and the payment to trade unions and trade union federations by employers of sums in respect of levies, subscriptions or...

Nothing in this Part prevents a member of a trade union from paying any dues, levies, subscriptions or other payments authorised by the constitution of the trade union directly to the trade union

An employers’ organisation may provide in its constitution for its members to – (a) pay subscriptions or levies as a condition of their membership of the employers’ organisation; and (b) to charge...

(1) An employer, including an employer in the public sector, shall recognise a trade union for purposes of collective bargaining if that trade union represents the simple majority of unionisable...

(1) Without limiting the matters that may be dealt with in a recognition agreement, a recognition agreement shall provide for trade union members in a workplace to elect from among themselves trade...

(1) Without limiting the matters that may be dealt with in a recognition agreement, a recognition agreement shall provide for an employer to grant a trade union reasonable access to the employers...

(1) An employer, group of employers or an employers’ organisation that has recognised a trade union in accordance with the provisions of this Part shall conclude a collective agreement with the...

(1) An employer, group of employers or employers’ organisation and a trade union may conclude a collective agreement providing for― (a) the conciliation of any category of trade disputes identified...

(1)A collective agreement binds for the period of the agreement - (a) the parties to the agreement; (b) all unionisable employees employed by the employer, group of employers or members of the...

(1) Every collective agreement shall be submitted to the Industrial Court for registration within fourteen days of its conclusion. (2) The employer or employer’s organisation which is party to an...

(1) The Minister may, after consultations with the Board, make regulations establishing machinery for determining terms and conditions of employment for any category of employees in the public...

(1) A trade dispute may be reported to the Minister in the prescribed form and manner – (a) by or on behalf of a trade union, employer or employers' organisation that is a party to the dispute;...

(1) Every party to a trade dispute referred to in section 62 shall file a replying statement in the prescribed form and manner with the Minister within fourteen days of receiving a copy of the report...

Any party which has an interest in any dispute may file a statement with the Minister within fourteen days of receiving a copy of the referral.

(1) Within twenty-one days of a trade dispute being reported to the Minister as specified under section 62, the Minister shall appoint a conciliator to attempt to resolve the trade dispute...

(1) A person appointed to conciliate a dispute under this Part shall be ― (a) a public officer; (b) any other person drawn from a panel of conciliators appointed by the Minister after consulting the...

(1) The conciliator or conciliation committee appointed under section 66 shall attempt to resolve the trade dispute referred to in section 65 (1) within- (a) thirty days of the appointment; or (b)...

(1) If a trade dispute is settled in conciliation the terms of the agreement shall be― (a) recorded in writing; and (b) signed by the parties and the conciliator. (2) A signed copy of the agreement...

A trade dispute is deemed to be unresolved after conciliation if the― (a) conciliator issues a certificate that the dispute has not been resolved by conciliation; or (b) thirty day period from the...

(1) If the Minister is satisfied that it is in the public interest to prevent a dispute from arising or to resolve a dispute, the Minister may appoint a conciliator or conciliation committee to...

The Minister may appoint a committee of inquiry to investigate any trade dispute and report to the Minister.

The Minister may delegate his powers under this Part to the Commissioner for Labour or the Chief Industrial Relations Officer.

(1) If a trade dispute is not resolved after conciliation, a party to the dispute may refer it to the Industrial Court in accordance with the rules of the Industrial Court. (2) Notwithstanding the...

A trade union may refer a dispute to the Industrial Court as a matter of urgency if the dispute concerns― (a) the recognition of a trade union in accordance with section 62; or (b) a redundancy...

The Arbitration Act shall not apply to any proceedings before the Industrial Court.

A person may participate in a strike or lock-out if― (a) the trade dispute that forms the subject of the strike or lock-out concerns terms and conditions of employment or the recognition of a trade...