(1) Any dispute which is characterized by :
(a) The intervention of a group of wage-earning workers, whether
or not the said workers are organized in trade unions, and
(b) The collective nature of the interests at stake shall be deemed
to be a collective labour dispute and shall therefore lie outside the
jurisdiction of the courts to which reference is made in Section
131 above.
(2) Settlement of any collective labour dispute shall be subject to
conciliation and arbitration procedure as provided for in a
Sections 158 and 164 hereunder.
(3) Shall be deemed legitimate any strike or lock-out started after
these arbitration procedures have been exhausted and have
failed.
(4) A strike shall be collective or concerted refusal by all or part
of the workers of an establishment to comply with the normal
labour rules, in order to bring the employer to meet their
demands or claims.
(5) A lock-out shall be the locking of an establishment by the
employer in order to bring pressure to bear on workers on strike
or threatening to go in strike.
I - Conciliation
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In force from 14 August 1992
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