Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Act 2007
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Definitions. |
2.— In this Act— | |
“employee representatives” has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Protection of Employment Act 1977 ; | ||
“ industrial action ” means— | ||
(a) a cessation of work by any number or body of workers acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of workers to continue to work for their employer done as a means of compelling their employer, or to aid other workers in compelling their employer, to accept or not to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment, or | ||
(b) the closing of a place of employment, or the suspension of work, or the refusal by an employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed by that employer in consequence of a dispute, done with a view to compelling those persons, or to aid another employer in compelling persons employed by that other employer, to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment; | ||
“ Minister ” means the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment; | ||
“ Secretary General ” means the Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. |