A person who by intimidation, violence, fraud or any other unlawful means, whether alone or with others compels another to:
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 299
Violation of the Right of Freedom to Work · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
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;
to join a group or association having as its aim the objects mentioned in (a); or
anyone who prevents another from freely leaving such a group or association,
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.