DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 59 Employment etc
DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 59
Employment etc(1) It is unlawful for an employer to subject an employee, or a person seeking employment, to sexual harassment.
(2) It is unlawful for an employee to subject a fellow employee, or a person seeking employment with the same employer, to sexual harassment.
(3) It is unlawful for a principal to subject a commission agent or contract worker, or a person seeking to become his or her commission agent or contract worker, to sexual harassment.
(4) It is unlawful for a commission agent or contract worker to subject a fellow commission agent or contract worker to sexual harassment.
(5) It is unlawful for a partner in a partnership to subject another partner in the partnership, or a person seeking to become a partner in the partnership, to sexual harassment.
(6) It is unlawful for a workplace participant to subject another workplace participant, or a person seeking to become a workplace participant at that workplace, to sexual harassment at a place that is a workplace, or potential workplace, as the case requires, of both of those people.
(7) In this section:
"place" includes a ship, aircraft or vehicle.
"workplace" means a place at which a workplace participant works or otherwise carries out functions in connection with being a workplace participant.
"workplace participant" means any of the following:
(a) an employer or employee;
(b) a commission agent or contract worker;
(c) a partner in a partnership.