ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1977 - SECT 40 Discrimination against applicants and employees

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1977 - SECT 40

40 Discrimination against applicants and employees

(1) It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a person on the ground of marital or domestic status--

(a) in the arrangements the employer makes for the purpose of determining who shall be offered employment,

(b) in determining who should be offered employment, or

(c) in the terms on which the employer offers employment.

(2) It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the ground of marital or domestic status--

(a) in the terms or conditions of employment which the employer affords the employee,

(b) by denying the employee access, or limiting the employee's access, to opportunities for promotion, transfer or training, or to any other benefits associated with employment, or

(c) by dismissing the employee or subjecting the employee to any other detriment.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to employment--

(a) for the purposes of a private household,

(b) where the number of persons employed by the employer, disregarding any persons employed within the employer's private household, does not exceed 5, or

(c) by a private educational authority.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) (b), a corporation shall be regarded as the employer of the employees of any other corporation which, with respect to the firstmentioned corporation, is a related body corporate within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.