S-6 - Act to ensure the provision of essential health services and social services in the event of a labour dispute

Section 17 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

17. An association of employees which authorizes, encourages or incites a person to go on strike in an establishment, in the absence of an agreement or decision referred to in section 7, or which authorizes, encourages or incites a person to contravene the terms of an executory agreement or decision, is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary proceeding, in addition to the costs, to a fine of $5,000 to $20,000 for each day or part of a day during which the offence continues.

Where an association of employees is guilty of an offence mentioned in the first paragraph, each of its officers, directors, employees, agents or advisers who participated in the commission of the offence, assented thereto or acquiesced therein, is deemed to have been a party to the offence and is personally liable to the penalty provided for such offence, whether or not the association of employees has been prosecuted or convicted.

1975, c. 52, s. 17.