Penal Code · English · 2015
Article 299
Violation of the Right of Freedom to Work
A person who by intimidation, violence, fraud or any other unlawful means, whether alone or with others compels another to:
#to accept a particular employment or particular conditions of employment, or to refuse or withhold his labor, with the object of imposing on an employer by force the acceptance or modification of terms of employment;
#is guilty of violation of the right of freedom to work, a Class 1 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas.
#Violation of the right of freedom to work may only be prosecuted upon preferring of charges by the victim.
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