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WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 697 Conduct during dispute

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 697

Conduct during dispute

             (1)  An employee who is a party to a dispute must, while the dispute is being resolved:

                     (a)  continue to work in accordance with his or her contract of employment, unless the employee has a reasonable concern about an imminent risk to his or her health or safety; and

                     (b)  comply with any reasonable direction given by his or her employer to perform other available work, either at the same workplace or at another workplace.

             (2)  In directing an employee to perform other available work, an employer must have regard to:

                     (a)  the provisions (if any) of the law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory dealing with occupational health and safety that apply to that employee or that other work; and

                     (b)  whether that work is appropriate for the employee to perform.