Industrial and Labour Relations Act 359. Section 108 (1) of the Industrial and Labour Relations Act, prohibits an employer from terminating the services of an employee on grounds of discrimination or imposing other penalties or disadvantages to such an employee. 360. Section 64 of the Act provides for recognition agreements as follows: “Every employer employing twenty five or more eligible employees, or such lesser number as may be prescribed by the Minister, shall within three months after registering himself as an employer with the Labour Commissioner enter into a recognition agreement with the trade union, if any, to which the employees belong”. 361. Section 65 of the Act requires every recognition agreement to be in writing and signed by the representatives of the parties to it. It further requires “(a) that the employer or association has recognized the trade union as the sole representative of, and exclusive bargaining agent for, eligible employees represented by the trade union so recognized and employed by the employer or the members of such association for the purpose of regulating the collective relationship of the employers or association and the trade union; (b) for the methods, remedies and rules relating to procedures, and for the settling of disputes or the remedying of grievances by means of collective bargaining between the employer, association or trade union; and (c) for the methods, procedures and rules under which the agreement may be reviewed, amended, replaced or terminated”. 362. Section 59 of the Industrial and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act, No. 30 of 1997 provides that, within three months from the date of registration of the recognition agreement, the employer and the trade 142