Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 585

585 Entitlements to compensation under contract of employment prohibited and void

(1) A contract of employment can not include a provision for accident pay, or other payment, on account of a worker sustaining an injury.

(2) A provision of a contract of employment is of no force or effect to the extent it provides for payment of accident pay, or other payment, on account of a worker sustaining an injury.

(3) In this section—

"contract of employment" means a contract with a worker or a contract with an individual in the circumstances mentioned in schedule 2 , part 1 but does not include an industrial instrument.