Industrial Relations Act, Chapter 88:01

The IRA has provisions for the Minister delegate to any officer or officers within the Ministry ofLabour any of his powers or functions under this Act

• True

• False

Answer explanation

3. (1) The Minister may, in relation to any matter or class of matters, delegate to any officer or officers within the Ministry of Labour any of his powers or functions under this Act, except this power of delegation, so that the delegated powers or functions

may be exercised by such officer or officers with respect thereto.

According to the Act, the Minister of Finance is identified as the employer of any worker employed by the government

• True

• False

Answer explanation

(4) For the purposes of this Act—

(a) the Chief Personnel Officer, referred to in section 13 of the Civil Service Act, shall be deemed to be the employer of any worker

employed by the Government;

Under the Second Schedule, which of the following is not considered an essential service

• Electricity

• Fire

• Health

• Oil and Gas

Answer explanation

SECOND SCHEDULE

ESSENTIAL SERVICES

1. Electricity Service (Generation, Transmission and Distribution).

2. Water and Sewerage Services.

3. Internal Telephone Service.

4. External Communications (Telephone, Telegraph, Wireless).

5. Fire Service.

6. Health Services.

7. Hospital Services.

8. Sanitation Services (including scavenging).

9. Public School Bus Service.

10. Civil Aviation Services (including all services provided by a

commercial airline the majority of the aircraft of which are registered in

Trinidad and Tobago or are owned by citizens of Trinidad and Tobago or by a

company incorporated in Trinidad and Tobago, aircraft maintenance,

refuelling and ramp services, air traffic control and meteorological services

and airline catering services).

The Essential Industry under the first schedule of the Act, which of the following is not listed under the essential industries

• Electricity

• Water and Sewerage

• Fire Services

• Education

Answer explanation

First schedule identifies the Essential Industries

The following persons shall not partake in any industrial action

• Teaching Service

• Public Servants

• Central Bank Worker

• Manufacturing Industry

Answer explanation

69. (1) The following persons shall not take part in any

industrial action:

(a) members of the Public Service in Trinidad and

Tobago

members of the Prison Service of Trinidad and

Tobago;

(c) members of the Fire Service of Trinidad and

Tobago;

(d) members of the Teaching Service; and

(e) members of the staff and other employees of the

Central Bank, established by the Central

Bank Act.

A person who has engaged in any form illegal industral action

is liable on summary

conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment

for three months.

• False

• True

Answer explanation

69 (2)A person mentioned in subsection (1) who

contravenes the provisions thereof is liable on summary

conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment

for three months.

According to the Act, “collective bargaining” means treating and negotiating with a

view to the conclusion of a collective agreement or the

revision or renewal thereof or the resolution of disputes

• True

• False

Answer explanation

2(1) “collective bargaining” means treating and negotiating with a

view to the conclusion of a collective agreement or the

revision or renewal thereof or the resolution of disputes

“essential industry” means an industry specified in the First Schedule and

“essential services” means the services set out in the

Second Schedule;

• True

• False

Answer explanation

“essential industry” means an industry specified in the

First Schedule;

“essential services” means the services set out in the

Second Schedule;

“lockout”

means the closing of a place of employment or the suspension of work by an employer or the refusal by an employer to employ or continue to employ any number of workers employed by him.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

“lockout”

means the closing of a place of employment or the suspension of work by an employer or the refusal by an employer to employ or continue to employ any number of workers employed by him, done with a view to induce or compel workers employed by him to agree to terms or conditions of, or affecting employment, but does not include the closing of a place of employment for the protection of property or persons therein

The following best defines a trade dispute

• A dispute between an employer and workers of that employer

• A trade union on behalf of such workers and the employer

• A dispute between the two (2) employees.

• A and B

• None of the above

Answer explanation

trade dispute” or “dispute”, subject to subsection (2), means any dispute between an employer and workers of that employer or a trade union on behalf of such workers, connected with

the dismissal, employment, non-employment, suspension

from employment, refusal to employ, re-employment or

reinstatement of any such workers, including a dispute

connected with the terms and conditions of the employment

or labour of any such workers, and the expression also includes a dispute between workers and workers or trade unions on their behalf as to the representation of a worker

(not being a question or difference as to certification of

recognition under Part III);