WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 281 Replacement employees--maternity leave

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 281

             (1)  Before an employer engages an employee (a primary replacement ) to do the work of another employee because the other employee is taking a continuous period of leave including (or constituted by) maternity leave, the employer must tell the primary replacement:

                     (a)  that the engagement to do that work is temporary; and

                     (b)  what the rights of the employee taking maternity leave are under section 280 when she returns to work after the period of leave.

             (2)  Before an employer engages an employee (a secondary replacement ) to do the work of another employee (the primary replacement ) because the primary replacement has been temporarily promoted or transferred to do the work of a third employee while the third employee is taking a continuous period of leave including (or constituted by) maternity leave, the employer must tell the secondary replacement:

                     (a)  that the engagement to do that work is temporary; and

                     (b)  what the rights of the employee taking maternity leave are under section 280 when she returns to work after the period of leave.

             (3)  In this section:

"employee" has the meaning given by subsection 5(1).