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Employment Act 1980
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18Acts to compel trade union membership
(1)Nothing in section 13 of the 1974 Act shall prevent an act to which this section applies from being actionable in tort on a ground specified in subsection (1)(a) or (b) of section 13 in any case where—
(a)the contract concerned is a contract of employment, or
(b)the contract concerned is not a contract of employment but one of the facts relied upon for the purpose of establishing liability is that any person has—
(i)induced another to break a contract of employment or interfered or induced another to interfere with its performance, or
(ii)threatened that a contract of employment under which he or another is employed will be broken or its performance interfered with, or that he will induce another to break a contract of employment or to interfere with its performance.
(2)This section applies to an act done for the purpose of compelling workers to become members of a particular trade union or of one of two or more particular trade unions, if none of those workers works for the same employer or at the same place as the employee working under the contract of employment referred to in subsection (1) above.
(3)Expressions used in this section and in the 1974 Act have the same meanings in this section as in that Act.
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