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Protection

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Chapter 8Rights and responsibilities of employees, employers, organisations etc.
Part 1General protections
Division 3Workplace rights

285 Protection

(1)

A person must not take adverse action against another person—

(a)

because the other person—

(i)

has a workplace right; or

(ii)

has, or has not, exercised a workplace right; or

(iii)

proposes to or proposes not to, or has at any time proposed to or proposed not to, exercise a workplace right; or

(b)

to prevent the exercise of a workplace right by the other person.

Note—

This subsection is a civil penalty provision.

(2)

A person must not take adverse action against another person (the second person) because a third person has exercised, or proposes to or has at any time proposed to exercise, a workplace right for the second person’s benefit or for the benefit of a class of persons to which the second person belongs.

Note—

This subsection is a civil penalty provision.

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