Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY) ACT 2016 (NO. 87, 2016) - SECT 53

             (1)  A person must not:

                     (a)  organise or take, or threaten to organise or take, any action; or

                     (b)  refrain, or threaten to refrain, from taking action;

with intent:

                     (c)  to coerce a building employee to nominate a particular superannuation fund or scheme to receive the employee's superannuation contributions; or

                     (d)  to coerce a building employer to pay to a particular superannuation fund or scheme the employer's superannuation contributions for building employees.

Note 1:       See also Division 2 (reason for action and coercion).

Note 2:       Grade A civil penalty.

             (2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to protected industrial action.