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CHILD EMPLOYMENT ACT 2003 - SECT 18B Record keeping by employers

CHILD EMPLOYMENT ACT 2003 - SECT 18B

Record keeping by employers

    (1)     An employer must keep a record of the written consent of the parent or guardian of a child to the child's employment by that employer in accordance with subsection (3).

    (2)     An employer must keep a record of an exemption from attendance at school for a child employed by that employer in accordance with subsection (3).

    (3)     The employer must keep the written record—

S. 18B(3)(a) amended by No. 14/2021 s. 12.

        (a)     in a form approved by the Wage Inspectorate Victoria; and

S. 18B(3)(b) amended by No. 27/2022 s. 62.

        (b)     for a period of 12 months after the expiry of the licence to which the record relates, or for any other prescribed period.

S. 18B(4) amended by No. 14/2021 s. 12, substituted by No. 27/2022 s. 16.

    (4)     An employer must keep a written record of the name of any person who supervises a child in the course of the child's employment and the number of any current WWC clearance for that person in accordance with subsection (5).

S. 18B(5) amended by No. 14/2021 s. 12, substituted by No. 27/2022 s. 16.

    (5)     The employer must keep the written record—

        (a)     for a period of 5 years after the person who supervised the child last supervised any child in the course of the child's employment by the employer; or

        (b)     for any other prescribed period.

S. 19

substituted by No. 26/2010 s. 19.