lock-out definition

lock-out means the 6[temporary 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 him;
lock-out means 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 him in consequence of a dispute, done with a view to compelling those persons, or to aid another employer in compelling persons employed by him, to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment;
lock-out means any one or more of the following acts or omissions by any person who is or has been an employer

More Definitions of lock-out

lock-out means the closing of place of employment or part of such place, or the suspension, wholly or partly, of work by an employer, or refusal, absolute or conditional, by an employer to continue to employ any number of workmen employed by him, where such closing, suspension or refusal occurs in connection with an industrial dispute or is intended for the purpose of compelling workmen employed to accept certain terms and conditions of or affecting employment;
lock-out means the closing of a place of employment or the suspension of work or refusal by an employer to employ any employees—
lock-out means any action taken by an employer, whether or not in contemplation or furtherance of a labour dispute and whether or not the employer is a party to a dispute, which consists in -
lock-out means an action which, in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute (within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946), is taken by one or more employers, whether parties to the dispute or not, and which consists of the exclusion of one or more employees from one or more factories, offices or other places of work or of the suspension of work in one or more such places or of the collective, simulta- neous or otherwise connected termination or suspension of employment of a group of employees;
lock-out means the exclusion by an employer of employees from the employer's workplace, for the purpose of compelling the employees to accept a demand in respect of any matter of mutual interest between employer and employee, whether or not the employer breaches those employees' contracts of employment in the course of or for the purpose of that exclusion;
lock-out shall have the meaning given those terms in the Labour Relations Act.
lock-out shall bear the meaning given to them in the Ontario Labour Relations Act.