The Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992

Pressure to impose union membership or recognition requirements

19.—(1) Nothing in Article 15 shall prevent an act being actionable in tort in any case where a person induces, or attempts to induce, another—

(a) to incorporate in a contract to which that other person is a party, or proposed contract to which that other person intends to be a party, any term or condition which is, or would be, void by virtue of Article 27(1) or 28(1); or

(b) to contravene Article 27(2) or 28(2);

and the act constitutes, or is one of a number of acts which together constitute, the inducement or attempted inducement.

(2) Nothing in Article 15 shall prevent an act which interferes with the supply (whether or not under a contract) of goods or services, or can reasonably be expected to have such an effect, being actionable in tort in any case where paragraph (3) is satisfied and one of the facts relied upon for the purpose of establishing liability is that any person has—

(a) induced another to break a contract of employment or interfered or induced another to interfere with its performance; or

(b) 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.

(3) This paragraph is satisfied if—

(a) the supplier of the goods or services is not the employer under the contract of employment mentioned in paragraph (2); and

(b) the reason, or one of the reasons, for which the act is done is the fact or belief that the supplier does not, or that the supplier might not, recognise, negotiate or consult as mentioned in Article 28.