EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM ACT 2006 - SECT 5.4.7 Conditions of employment under work experience arrangements

EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM ACT 2006 - SECT 5.4.7

    (1)     The employment of students under work experience arrangements is subject to the following conditions—

        (a)     a student must not be employed under this Division for more than 40 days during any school year nor more than 10 days during any school term;

        (b)     the principal of a school may make a work experience arrangement with an employer for the placement of a particular student with that employer for specified periods during a school year;

        (c)     an employer must not at any time employ more than the number of students that employers are permitted to employ by an Order made under section 5.4.4 ;

        (d)     the period of employment in respect of any arrangement must not exceed a total of 10 days;

        (e)     the full period in respect of the employment is to be a period falling within the school year.

    (2)     A work experience arrangement—

        (a)     may be varied or amended by a further arrangement; and

        (b)     may be cancelled at any time by notice in writing—

              (i)     given by the employer to the principal of the school; or

              (ii)     given by the principal of the school to the employer.

    (3)     The principal of a school may suspend the operation of a condition in subsection (1)—

        (a)     to allow a student to be employed under a work experience arrangement for more than 10 days but not exceeding 15 days during any school term;

        (b)     to allow the period of employment of that student to exceed a total of 10 days but not to exceed a total of 15 days during any school term in respect of the arrangement—

if authorised to do so by Ministerial Order and subject to any terms or conditions required by Ministerial Order.

    (4)     The Minister or a person employed in the Department authorised in writing by the Minister for that purpose may suspend the operation of all or any of the conditions of employment set out in paragraphs (a), (b), (d) and (e) of subsection (1) with respect to any student with a disability or impairment.

    (5)     A suspension made under subsection (4)—

        (a)     must be in writing signed by the Minister or the authorised officer;

        (b)     may be given with respect to any specified student or any specified group or class of students;

        (c)     may be for a specified time or indefinitely; and

        (d)     may be varied or revoked by the Minister or the authorised officer (as the case requires).