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

Section 19 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

19. Every employer or employers’ association who or which, in any manner, orders a lock-out in an establishment in the absence of an agreement or decision referred to in section 7, or who or which contravenes the terms of an executory agreement or decision, is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary proceeding, to a fine of $5,000 to $20,000 for each day or part of a day during which the offence continues.

Where an employer or an employer’s association is guilty of an offence mentioned in the first paragraph, each director, agent or adviser thereof 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 the offence, whether or not the employer or employers’ association has been prosecuted or convicted.

1975, c. 52, s. 19.