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Volume 2Chapter 2, Part 2-5 to Chapter 3A, Part 3A-5 (sections 258 to 536NK)
Chapter 3Rights and responsibilities of employees, employers, organisations etc.
Part 3-1General protections
Division 3Workplace rights
343 Coercion
(1)
A person must not organise or take, or threaten to organise or take, any action against another person with intent to coerce the other person, or a third person, to:
(a)
exercise or not exercise, or propose to exercise or not exercise, a workplace right; or
(b)
exercise, or propose to exercise, a workplace right in a particular way.
Note:
This subsection is a civil remedy provision (see Part 4‑1).
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply to:
(a)
protected industrial action; or
(b)
discrimination against an employer in the circumstances mentioned in subsection 354(2A) or (2B).
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