WorksheetsIndustrial Relations Act, Chapter 88:01
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
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
According to the Act, the Minister of Finance is identified as the employer of any worker employed by the government
True
False
Under the Second Schedule, which of the following is not considered an essential service
Electricity
Fire
Health
Oil and Gas
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
The following persons shall not partake in any industrial action
Teaching Service
Public Servants
Central Bank Worker
Manufacturing Industry
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
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
“essential industry” means an industry specified in the First Schedule and
“essential services” means the services set out in the
Second Schedule;
True
False
“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
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
Any person who has entered contract with an employer to do any skilled,
unskilled, manual, technical, clerical or other work for hire or reward is considered a worker
True
False
The definition of a worker is clearly defined.However, there are exceptions to the definition. Which of the following persons is not considered worker under the Act.
A public officer
A member of the Teaching Service
None of the above
All of the Above
A person who is in the opinion of the Board, is responsible for the formulation of policy in any undertaking or business is not considered a worker under the meaning of the Act
True
False
Provisions for compulsory recognition and duty to treat is recognised under the Act.
True
False
According to the Act, an employer shall not
"Make the employment of a worker subject to the
condition that he shall not join a union or shall, relinquish trade union membership"
Dismiss or otherwise prejudice a worker by reason
of union membership or because of participationvin union activities outside working hours
With intent to dissuade or prevent the worker
from becoming such officer, delegate or member
or from so appearing or giving evidence, threaten
to dismiss a worker, or to affect adversely his
employment by reason of the circumstance that the
worker is part of trade union
All of the above
A collective agreement shall contain effective
provisions concerning appropriate proceedings for avoiding and
settling dispute
True
False
Not all collective agreements shall contain a provision for the
settlement of all differences between the parties thereto arising
out of the interpretation, application, administration or alleged
violation thereof
True
False
A recognised majority union or employer that
proposes to initiate the negotiation of a collective agreement may opt
send to the Minister particulars of the several matters and things
on which agreement is to be negotiated.
False
True
The Minister upon receipt of a collective agreement may submit the same to the Court within 21 days
True
False
The Court may with respect to a collective
agreement may do the following
a) Register or refuse to register a collective agreement
B) register
the agreement with such amendments
C) refer it back to the parties
thereto for further negotiation on matters on
which there was a refusal to register
D) A an B only
E) A, B and C
The following persons can report a trade dispute to the Minister of Labour
A) Union
B) Employer
C) Worker
A and B
A, B, and C
A trade dispute may not be reported to the Minister
if more than 12 months have elapsed since the issue giving rise
to the dispute first arose, save that the Minister may, in any case
where he considers it just, extend the time during which a dispute
may be so reported to him
True
False
In drafting a trade dispute, the reporting party must ensure the following
Parties of the dispute
The address of each party
General terms and nature and scope of dispute
All of the above
Where a dispute has been determined or resolved
(either before or after conciliation by the Minister), the parties
shall prepare a memorandum of agreement setting out the terms
upon which the agreement was reached and either party may
present the memorandum to the Minister with a request that it be
forwarded to the Court under this section
True
False
A person guilty of an industrial relations offence
under this section is liable—
(a) in the case of an employer, to a fine of twenty
thousand dollars; or
(b) in the case of a trade union, to a fine of ten
thousand dollars
True
False
