FAIR WORK ACT 1994 - SECT 21
FAIR WORK ACT 1994 - SECT 21
(1) SAET may, if it
appears desirable, call a compulsory conference of the parties involved in an
industrial dispute.
(2) SAET may summon
the parties to the dispute and any other person who may be able to assist in
resolving the dispute to appear at the conference.
(3) A compulsory
conference may, at the discretion of SAET, be held in public or in private or
partly in public and partly in private.
(4) A person who fails
to attend a compulsory conference as required by SAET's summons or who, having
attended, fails to participate in the conference as required by the person
presiding at the conference commits a contempt of SAET.
(5) A person who
attends a conference as directed by the person presiding at the conference
will, on application to the Registrar, be entitled to be paid an amount
certified by the person presiding at the conference to be reasonable, having
regard to the conduct of the person both before and at the conference and to
the expenses and loss of time incurred by the person.
(6) The amount
certified under subsection (5) will be paid out of money appropriated by
Parliament for the purpose.