Western Australian Consolidated Acts

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1984 - SECT 35A

35A .         Discrimination against safety and health representative in relation to employment

        (1)         An employer or a prospective employer must not cause disadvantage to a person for the dominant or substantial reason that the person —

            (a)         is or was a safety and health representative; or

            (b)         is performing or has performed any function as a safety and health representative.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1) an employer causes disadvantage to a person if the employer —

            (a)         dismisses the person from employment;

            (b)         demotes the person or fails to give the person a promotion that the person could reasonably have expected;

            (c)         detrimentally alters the person’s employment position; or

            (d)         detrimentally alters the person’s pay or other terms and conditions of employment.

        (3)         For the purposes of subsection (1) a prospective employer causes disadvantage to a person if the prospective employer refuses to employ the person.

        (4)         An employer or prospective employer that contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence.

        [Section 35A inserted by No. 51 of 2004 s. 49.]