Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not do any of the following in order to avoid any right or prohibition under this Division:
(a) terminate an employee's employment for a period;
(b) delay re - engaging an employee for a period;
(ba) not re - engage an employee and instead engage another person to perform the same, or substantially similar, work for the person as the employee had performed for the person;
(c) change the nature of the work or tasks the employee is required to perform for the person;
(d) otherwise alter an employment relationship.
Note: The general protections provisions in Part 3 - 1 also prohibit the taking of adverse action by an employer against an employee (which includes an employee on a fixed term contract) because of a workplace right of the employee under this Division.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person takes action for a particular reason if the reasons for the action include that reason.