WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 402 Employers not to discriminate between unionist and non-unionist

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 402

             (1)  An employer must not, in negotiating a collective agreement, or a variation to a collective agreement, discriminate between employees of the employer:

                     (a)  because some of those employees are members of an organisation of employees while others are not members of such an organisation; or

                     (b)  because some of those employees are members of a particular organisation of employees, while others are not members of that organisation or are members of a different organisation of employees.

             (2)  Subsection (1) is a civil remedy provision.

Note:          See Division 11 for provisions on enforcement.

Note:       For other rules about civil remedy provisions, see Division 3 of Part 14.