Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) An employer, on
written request by a relevant person, must —
(a)
produce to the person the employment records relating to an employee; and
(b) let
the person inspect the employment records.
(2) The duty placed on
an employer by subsection (1) —
(a)
continues so long as the records are required to be kept under
section 49D(3);
(b) is
not affected by the fact that the employee is no longer employed by the
employer or that the industrial instrument no longer applies to him or her;
(c)
includes the further duties —
(i)
to let the relevant person enter premises of the employer
for the purpose of inspecting the records; and
(ii)
to let the relevant person take copies of or extracts
from the records;
and
(d) must
be complied with not later than —
(i)
at the end of the next pay period after the request is
received; or
(ii)
the seventh day after the day on which the request was
made to the employer.
(3) Nothing in this
section limits or otherwise affects the powers of an industrial inspector in
relation to the inspection of employment records.
(4) In this
section —
relevant person means —
(a) the
employee concerned;
(b) if
the employee is a represented person, his or her representative;
(c) a
person authorised in writing by the employee; and
(d) an
officer referred to in section 93 authorised in writing by the Registrar.
[Section 49E inserted by No. 20 of 2002
s. 146(1).]