Section 425 — Criminal Code: Offences by employers

Every one who, being an employer or the agent of an employer, wrongfully and without lawful authority refuses to employ or dismisses from his employment any person for the reason only that the person is a member of a lawful trade union or of a lawful association or combination of workmen or employees formed for the purpose of advancing, in a lawful manner, their interests and organized for their protection in the regulation of wages and conditions of work, seeks by intimidation, threat of loss of position or employment, or by causing actual loss of position or employment, or by threatening or imposing any pecuniary penalty, to compel workmen or employees to abstain from belonging to any trade union, association or combination to which they have a lawful right to belong, or conspires, combines, agrees or arranges with any other employer or his agent to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b), is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.