Okla. Stat. tit. 40, § 40-199.1
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Recruiting of employment to replace employees involved
Official statutory text
in a strike or lockout prohibited - Exceptions.
It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, agency, firm
or corporation, labor organization or officer or agent thereof, to
knowingly recruit, procure, supply or refer any person (excluding
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 273
persons who are permanent employees of the employer involved in such
strike or lockout) who has customarily and repeatedly offered
himself for employment in the place of employees involved in strikes
or lockouts for employment in place of an employee in a business or
industry where a strike or lockout exists.
The provisions of this act shall not apply to services or work
performed by a salaried or supervisory employee of a business or
industry where a strike or lockout exists, or a person, firm or
corporation in his or its usual trade, occupation or business;
provided that such trade, occupation or business is not usually the
furnishing of strikebreakers in any labor strike or lockout; and
provided further, that the said person, firm, or corporation hiring,
recruiting, securing or offering to secure employment shall, if a
person or an unincorporated firm, be a bona fide resident of the
State of Oklahoma for a period of six (6) months prior to the strike
or lockout, or if a corporation, be chartered or duly licensed to do
business in the State of Oklahoma for a period of six (6) months
prior to the strike or lockout.
It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, agency, firm
or corporation, labor organization or officer or agent thereof, to
knowingly recruit, procure, supply or refer any person (excluding
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 273
persons who are permanent employees of the employer involved in such
strike or lockout) who has customarily and repeatedly offered
himself for employment in the place of employees involved in strikes
or lockouts for employment in place of an employee in a business or
industry where a strike or lockout exists.
The provisions of this act shall not apply to services or work
performed by a salaried or supervisory employee of a business or
industry where a strike or lockout exists, or a person, firm or
corporation in his or its usual trade, occupation or business;
provided that such trade, occupation or business is not usually the
furnishing of strikebreakers in any labor strike or lockout; and
provided further, that the said person, firm, or corporation hiring,
recruiting, securing or offering to secure employment shall, if a
person or an unincorporated firm, be a bona fide resident of the
State of Oklahoma for a period of six (6) months prior to the strike
or lockout, or if a corporation, be chartered or duly licensed to do
business in the State of Oklahoma for a period of six (6) months
prior to the strike or lockout.
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