Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 296

296 Domestic violence

(1) An employer must not take adverse action against a person who is an employee, or prospective employee, of the employer because someone has committed, or is committing, domestic violence against the person.

Note—

This subsection is a civil penalty provision.

(2) For subsection (1) , it is not necessary that the person have the benefit of, or be named as the aggrieved under, any of the following—

(a) a domestic violence order;

(b) a police protection notice;

(c) an application for a domestic violence order.

(3) In this section—

"aggrieved" has the meaning given by the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 .

"domestic violence order" has the meaning given by the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 .

"police protection notice" has the meaning given by the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 .