Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 31

31 Workers are to be married couple

It is not unlawful for a person to discriminate on the basis of relationship status—

(a) in the arrangements made for deciding who should be offered work; or

(b) in deciding who should be offered work; or

(c) in the terms of work that is offered; or

(d) in failing to offer work; or

(e) in dismissing a worker;

(f) the work is for one of 2 positions that the person wants held concurrently by—

(i) a married couple; or

(ii) 2 persons each of whom is the de facto partner of the other; or

(iii) 2 persons each of whom is the civil partner of the other; and

(g) the workers are required to live in accommodation supplied by the person.