Commonwealth Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 795

             (1)  An employee or independent contractor must not cease work in the service of his or her employer, or of the person who engaged the independent contractor, as the case requires, because the employer or person:

                     (a)  is an officer or member of an industrial association; or

                     (b)  is entitled to the benefit of an industrial instrument or an order of an industrial body; or

                     (c)  has made or proposes to make any inquiry or complaint to a person or body having the capacity under an industrial law to seek:

                              (i)  compliance with that law; or

                             (ii)  the observance of a person's rights under an industrial instrument; or

                     (d)  has participated in, proposes to participate in or has at any time proposed to participate in any proceedings under an industrial law; or

                     (e)  has given evidence in a proceeding under an industrial law.

             (2)  Subsection (1) is a civil remedy provision.

Note:          See Division 9 for enforcement.