lockout definition

lockout shall bear the meaning given them in the Ontario Labour Relations Act.
lockout includes the closing of a place of employment, a suspension of work or a refusal by the Employer to continue to employ a number of its employees done to compel the employees, or to aid another employer to compel its employees, to agree to terms or conditions of employment.
lockout means the temporary withholding of work from a group of employees by shutting down the operation of the employer to bring pressure upon the affected employees or the bargaining representative, or both, to accept the employer's terms of settlement of a labor dispute.

Examples of lockout in a sentence

  • The terms Strike and Lockout are as defined in the Ontario Labour Relations Act.

  • The College shall not engage in any Lockout against the Union or the Student Workers covered by this Xxxxxxxxx.Xx will not be a cause for discharge or discipline and it will not be a violation of this Agreement for a Student Workerto refuse to cross a primary labor union picket line at the College’s premises that has been established to support a legal strike, provided the picket line is approved by the Union.

  • During the term of this Agreement, the College shall not engage in any Lockout against the Union or the Student Workers covered by this Agreement.

  • The Union agrees that employees on such leave will not be assigned to work in activities proscribed by the No Strike/No Lockout provisions of the SHS/SEIU Local 49 collective bargaining agreements or in health systems organizing campaigns.


More Definitions of lockout

lockout shall bear the meaning given them in the Labour Relations Act, as amended.
lockout shall have the meaning given these words in the Canada Labour Code.
lockout as defined in the Ontario Labour Relations Act.
lockout means an act by the employer to prevent its employees from going to work for the purpose of resisting demands of the employees' exclusive representative or for the purpose of gaining a concession from the exclusive representative;
lockout shall bear the meaning given them in the Ontario Labour Relations Act, R.S.O. 1995, Chapter 1 as amended.
lockout shall be as defined in the Labour Relations Act of Ontario. Notwithstanding the foregoing, employees may strike and the Employer may lock out employees in accordance with the provisions of the Labour Relations Act of Ontario.
lockout shall be “strike” and “lockout” as defined in the Labour Relations Act of Ontario.