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FAIR WORK ACT 2009 (NO. 28, 2009) - SECT 475

Accepting or seeking payments relating to periods of industrial action

             (1)  An employee must not:

                     (a)  accept a payment from an employer if the employer would contravene section 474 by making the payment; or

                     (b)  ask the employer to make such a payment.

Note 1:       This subsection is a civil remedy provision (see Part 4‑1).

Note 2:       Acts of coercion, or misrepresentations, relating to such payments may also contravene section 348 or 349.

             (2)  An employee organisation, or an officer or member of an employee organisation, must not ask an employer to make a payment to an employee if the employer would contravene section 474 by making the payment.

Note 1:       This subsection is a civil remedy provision (see Part 4‑1).

Note 2:       Acts of coercion, or misrepresentations, relating to such payments may also contravene section 348 or 349.



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