Industrial Relations Act 2016

A person must not—

pretend someone else has been employed by the person for a period, or in a capacity, other than that for, or in, which the other person was employed; or

assert in writing that someone else has been employed by the person for a period, or in a capacity, knowing the assertion to be false; or

assert in writing another matter relating to the person’s employment of someone else, knowing the assertion to be false in a material particular.

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

A person must not—

forge a document that purports to be a discharge from, or a record of, previous employment; or

use a document that purports to be a discharge from, or a record of, previous employment, knowing the document is not genuine or is false; or

pretend, or falsely claim, when seeking employment, to be a person named in a genuine document, that purports to be a discharge from, or a record of, previous employment, as a person to whom the document was given; or

seek to obtain employment by assuming someone else’s name, living or dead, with intent to deceive.

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

Subsection (4) applies in relation to a calling if, under a relevant industrial instrument or a general ruling for the Queensland minimum wage, an employee’s wages depends wholly or partly on the employee’s age, experience or duration of previous employment.

A person must not give information, or make a statement, about the particulars the person knows is false—

when seeking employment in the calling; or

while an employee in the calling.

Maximum penalty—16 penalty units.

A person’s liability to be dealt with for an offence under subsection (1) or (2) does not affect the person’s liability to be dealt with under the Criminal Code for forgery or false pretences.

However, the person must not be dealt with under both this Act and the Criminal Code for the same conduct.