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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1979 - SECT 23B

23B .         Power to prevent external interference with employment issues

        (1)         In this section —

        "employment claim" means a claim made to the Commission in which any of the following is an issue —

            (a)         the refusal or failure of an employer to employ a person ("the affected person");

            (b)         an employer’s employment or transfer of an employee to work at a particular place or site, or refusal or failure to employ or transfer an employee to work at a particular place or site;

            (c)         the reinstatement or re-employment of an employee who has been dismissed by an employer;

        "third party", in relation to an employment claim, means any person, other than the employer on whom a copy of the claim has been served.

        (2)         The Commission may, if it considers it necessary to do so in the interests of equity, good conscience and the substantial merits of an employment claim, order a third party to refrain from preventing, hindering or interfering with, or doing anything that would have the effect of preventing, hindering or interfering with —

            (a)         the employment of the affected person;

            (b)         the employment or transfer of the employee to work at a particular place or site; or

            (c)         the reinstatement or re-employment of the employee.

        (3)         Subsection (2) is not to be taken as limiting the persons in respect of whom the Commission can make other orders under this Act.

        [Section 23B inserted by No. 20 of 2002 s. 138(1)  4 .]



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