Multiple choice

Lockout is

  1. for trade reasons

  2. an act on the part of employer taken to coerce or pressurise the labour

  3. not an intentional act

  4. not concerned with industrial dispute
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B Correct answer
Explanation

(2) A lockout is generally used to enforce terms of employment upon a group of employees during a dispute. A lockout can act to force unionized workers to accept changed conditions such as lower wages.

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