Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 284

284 Meaning of workplace right

(1) A person has a
"workplace right" if the person—

(a) has a right to the benefit of, or has a role or responsibility under, an industrial law, industrial instrument or order made by an industrial body; or

(b) is able to start, or participate in, a process or proceedings under an industrial law or industrial instrument; or

(c) is able to make a complaint or inquiry—

(i) to an entity having the capacity under an industrial law to seek compliance with that law or an industrial instrument; or

(ii) if the person is an employee—in relation to the person’s employment.

(2) In this section—

"industrial body" means—

(a) the commission; or

(b) the court, or another court or commission (however called), exercising industrial law functions and powers corresponding to the commission’s functions and powers.