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FAIR WORK ACT 1994 - SECT 21

FAIR WORK ACT 1994 - SECT 21

21—Compulsory conference

        (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.