(1) An employer for a covered industry must keep a long service record relating to a worker during the worker's service with the employer.
Penalty: 24 penalty units in the case of an individual;
120 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.
Note
Section 71 applies to an offence against this subsection.
(2) An employer for a covered industry must keep a long service leave record relating to a worker for at least 7 years after the worker stops working for the employer.
Penalty: 24 penalty units in the case of an individual;
120 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.
Note
Section 71 applies to an offence against this subsection.
(3) A person must not make, without reasonable excuse, any false or misleading statement in, or any material omission from, a long service record.
Penalty: 24 penalty units in the case of an individual;
120 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.
Note
Section 71 applies to an offence against this subsection.
(4) An employer for a covered industry must not refuse a request by a worker (or a worker's personal representative) to provide the worker (or the personal representative) with a copy of a long service record relating to the worker.
Penalty: 24 penalty units in the case of an individual;
120 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.
Note
Section 71 applies to an offence against this subsection.
(5) Despite anything to the contrary in this or any other Act, a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1), (2), (3) or (4) may be commenced by filing a charge-sheet at any time within 6 years after the date on which the offence is alleged to have been committed.
(6) In this section—
"employer" includes a former employer;
"worker" includes a former worker.