New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 137

137 Kinds of dispute orders

(1) The Commission may make the following kinds of dispute orders when dealing with an industrial dispute in arbitration proceedings--

(a) The Commission may order a person to cease or refrain from taking industrial action.

(b) The Commission may order an employer to reinstate or re-employ any one or more employees who were dismissed in the course of the industrial dispute or whose dismissal resulted in the industrial dispute.

(c) The Commission may order an employer not to dismiss employees in the course of the industrial dispute if the employer has threatened to do so.

(d) The Commission may order a person to cease a secondary boycott imposed in connection with the industrial dispute.

(2) If employees are taking industrial action in connection with the industrial dispute, the Commission may order the employees to cease taking that industrial action before it makes any other kind of dispute order against the employer.

(3) A dispute order may not provide for the payment of compensation, lost remuneration or any other amount.

Note : See also claim for remedy under Part 6 of Chapter 2 (Unfair dismissals).