Victorian Numbered Acts

VICTORIAN WORKERS' WAGES PROTECTION ACT 2007 (NO. 71 OF 2007) - SECT 1

The purpose of this Act is to—

        (a)     ensure that employers pay wages in money and to set out the method of that payment; and

        (b)     regulate the ability of an employer to make deductions from an employee's wages; and

        (c)     provide for enforcement mechanisms and remedies if an employer—

              (i)     fails to pay an employee's wages in money; or

              (ii)     unlawfully deducts an amount from an employee's wages; or

              (iii)     terminates, or threatens to terminate, an employee's employment or prejudicially alters an employee's position because the employee is entitled to, or seeks to, exercise a right under this Act; and

        (d)     amend the Public Sector (Union Fees) Act 1992 and the Outworkers (Improved Protection) Act 2003 .