Fair Work Regulations 2009

An employer who has been asked by an employee or former employee to make a copy of an employee record available for inspection must tell the employee or former employee, on request, where employee records relating to the employee or former employee are kept.

Subregulation (1) is a civil remedy provision to which Part 4‑1 of the Act applies. Division 4 of Part 4‑1 of the Act deals with infringement notices relating to alleged contraventions of civil remedy provisions.

The employee or former employee may interview the employer, or a representative of the employer, at any time during ordinary working hours, about an employee record that the employer has made or will make.

Part 5‑2 of Chapter 5 of the Act sets out the circumstances in which an inspector can inspect employee records and require the production of employee records.