No. 14 of 2007 [Rev. 2012]
Labour Regulation
[Subsidiary]
[Issue 1]
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(d) the conduct or furtherance of any trade dispute on behalf of a trade union or
any member thereof;
(e) the payment of compensation for loss arising from a trade dispute to any
member of a trade union;
(f) the payment of allowances to members of a trade union or their dependants
on account of any unemployment, accident, sickness, old age or death;
(g) the payment of any subscription or fee to any federation to which the union
making the application may be affiliated;
(h) the payment of any fine or penalty imposed on any person by a court;
(i) any other purpose or object which the Minister may, by notice in the
Gazette, declare to be a purpose or object in respect of which a collection
shall not be made pursuant to these Regulations.
5. The Minister may at any time in writing revoke, vary or suspend any order made under
these Regulations in which event written notice thereof shall be given forthwith to the
general-secretary of the trade union concerned.
6. The general-secretary of a trade union in respect of which the Minister has made an
order under these Regulations may at any time serve on an employer who employs not
less than ten members of that trade union a notice in writing requiring the employer to
comply with the Minister’s order in respect of the employees who are named in any such
notice and who have acknowledged by their signatures therein that they are members of
that trade union and, as the case may be, of a branch thereof specified in the order.
7. Every employer on whom a notice is served under regulation 6 shall comply with the
Minister’s order referred to therein subject as follows—
(a) Where an employee notifies the employer in writing that he is not a member
of the trade union or, as the case may be, of the branch concerned, no
deduction or payment shall be made in respect of the wages earned by that
employee in any month following the month in which such notice was given,
unless or until such notification is withdrawn;
(b) a deduction or payment shall only be made from the wages due to any
employee where those wages, after all deductions required or permitted to
be made by or under any other law have been made, exceed the sum which
is required by the order to be deducted;
(c) the first deductions and payments made in pursuance of the notice shall be
made in respect of the wages earned in the month following the month in
which the notice is served;
(d) no deduction or payment shall be made in respect of any wages earned in
any month if before the twentieth day of that month the Minister’s order has
been revoked or suspended and that revocation or suspension has been
published in the Gazette or communicated by the Minister directly to the
employer;
(e) where any order made by the Minister is varied before the twentieth day in
any month and the order making the variation has been published in the
Gazette or communicated by the Minister directly to the employer, any
deduction or payment made in respect of wages earned in that month shall
be made in accordance with the terms of the order as so varied;
(f) no deduction or payment shall be made by an employer in respect of or
during any month in which any of his employees, who is a member of trade
union or branch concerned, takes part in any strike, unless and to such
extent as the Minister otherwise directs by notice in writing to the employer.