Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Area-standards picketing
labor lai. The practice that a union undertakes to protect its members in a particular region by picketing employers that may undercut the market. Through the potentially lower labor costs of a nonunion workforce.
Picketing
The demonstration by one or more persons outside a business or organization to protest the entity's activities or policies and to pressure the entity to meet the protesters' demands; esp., an employees' demonstration aimed at publicizing a labor dispute and influencing the public to withhold business from the employer. Cf. BOYCOTT; STRIKE.
common-situs picketing
The illegal picketing by union workers of a construction site, stemming from a dispute with one of the subcontractors.
informational picketing
Picketing to inform the public about a matter of concern to the union.
organizational picketing
Picketing by a union in an effort to persuade the employer to accept the union as the collective-bargaining agent of the employees; esp., picketing by members of one union when the employer has already recognized another union as the bargaining agent for the company's employees.
recognition picketing.
See PICKETING
secondary picketing
The picketing of an establishment with which the picketing party has no direct dispute in order to pressure the party with which there is a dispute. See secondary boycott under BOYCOTT; secondary strike under STRIKE.
unlawful picketing
Picketing carried on in violation of law, as when the picketers use threats or violence to dissuade other employees from returning to work.