Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 354B

354B Authority to give information

(1) An employee may authorise the employee’s employer to give information about the employee to an employee organisation.

(2) The authorisation may be given to the employer—

(a) directly by the employee; or

(b) by an employee organisation on behalf of the employee.

(3) The authorisation—

(a) must be in writing and legible; and

(b) must state—

(i) the name of the employee; and

(ii) the name of the employee’s employer; and

(iii) the information to which the authorisation applies; and

(iv) the name of the employee organisation that may request the information and to which the information must be given; and

(c) must be signed by the employee, including by electronic signature; and

(d) may be made electronically.

(4) The authorisation has effect until the earliest of the following events happens—

(a) the authorisation is withdrawn by the employee;

(b) the employee’s employment with the employer ends;

(c) there is a break in the employee’s continuity of employment of longer than 3 months.

(5) The employer must keep an authorisation given under this section at, or in a place where it can be accessed from, a workplace of the employer in Queensland.

Note—

This subsection is a civil penalty provision.