40.1-55 - Employee striking terminates, and becomes temporarily ineligible for, public employment.
§ 40.1-55. Employee striking terminates, and becomes temporarily ineligiblefor, public employment.
Any employee of the Commonwealth, or of any county, city, town or otherpolitical subdivision thereof, or of any agency of any one of them, who, inconcert with two or more other such employees, for the purpose ofobstructing, impeding or suspending any activity or operation of hisemploying agency or any other governmental agency, strikes or willfullyrefuses to perform the duties of his employment shall, by such action, bedeemed to have terminated his employment and shall thereafter be ineligiblefor employment in any position or capacity during the next twelve months bythe Commonwealth, or any county, city, town or other political subdivision ofthe Commonwealth, or by any department or agency of any of them.
(Code 1950, § 40-65; 1970, c. 321.)