Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 288

288 Undue influence or pressure

An employer must not exert undue influence or undue pressure on an employee in relation to a decision by the employee—

(a) to make or not make an agreement or arrangement under the Queensland Employment Standards; or

(b) to make or not make an agreement or arrangement under a term of an industrial instrument; or

(c) to agree or not agree to a deduction from amounts payable to the employee in relation to the performance of work.

Note 1—

This section is a civil penalty provision.

Note 2—

This section can apply to decisions whether to agree to performing work on keeping in touch days—see section 80 .