CHAPTER I - General provisions
Art. 248. - (1) A labour conflict shall mean any disagreement occurring between the social partners, in their work relationships.
(2) The labour conflicts the object of which is the establishment of work conditions on the occasion of negotiations for the collective labour contracts shall be conflicts referring to employees' professional, social, or economic interests, called conflicts of interests.
(3) The labour conflicts the object of which is the exercise of some rights or the compliance with certain obligations deriving from laws or other acts, as well as from the collective or individual labour contracts, shall be conflicts referring to the employees' rights, called conflicts of rights.
Art. 249. - The procedure for resolving labour conflicts shall be set forth by a special law.
CHAPTER II - Strike
Art. 250. - Employees shall be entitled to strike with a view to defending their professional, economic, and social interests.
Art. 251. - (1) A strike shall mean a voluntary or collective cessation of work by the employees.
(2) The employees' participation in a strike shall be free. No employee shall be constrained to participate in a strike or not.
(3) The limitation or prohibition of the right to strike may only take place in the cases and for the employee categories expressly stipulated by the law.
Art. 252. - The participation in a strike, as well as its organisation in under the law, shall not mean a violation of the employees' obligations and may not have disciplinary sanctions against the employees on strike or the organisers of the strike as a consequence.
Art. 253. - The manner in which the right to strike is exercised, the organisation, the start and the progress of the strike, the procedures prior to the start of the strike, the suspension and termination of the strike, as well as other aspects related to the strike shall be regulated by a special law.
