Western Australian Current Acts

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 35D

35D .         Discrimination against contract workers

        (1)         It is unlawful for a principal to discriminate against a contract worker on the ground of the contract worker’s family responsibility or family status —

            (a)         in the terms or conditions on which the principal allows the contract worker to work; or

            (b)         by not allowing the contract worker to work or continue to work; or

            (c)         by denying the contract worker access, or limiting the contract worker’s access, to any benefit associated with the work in respect of which the contract with the employer is made; or

            (d)         by subjecting the contract worker to any other detriment.

        (2)         Nothing in subsection (1) renders it unlawful for a person to discriminate against another person, on the ground of the family responsibility or family status of the other person, in connection with work to perform domestic duties within a private household in which the first-mentioned person resides.

        [Section 35D inserted: No. 74 of 1992 s. 11.]