Legal Definition and Related Resources of Lockout
Meaning of Lockout
The refusal by an employer to furnish available work to its regular employees whether such refusal is motivated by employers’ desire to protect itself against economic injury or by its desire to protect itself in its bargaining with the employees or by both. Laclede Gas Co. v N.L.R.B., (C.A.8)421 F.2d 610.
Lockout Alternative Definition
The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages. 202 111. 398.
Synonyms of Lockout
noun
- barring out
- cessation of employment
- cessation of the furnishing of work
- closeout
- coercive refusal to furnish work
- employer work stoppage
- exclusion of workers
- nonadmission of employees
- preclusion of work
- refusal to furnish work
- repudiation of employment
- stoppage of work
- temporary closing
- work stoppage
- Associated Concepts: strike
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