Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A provision of a training contract or an employment agreement or any other contract of employment to which an apprentice is a party is of no effect to the extent that it provides a term or condition of employment that is less favourable to the apprentice than one applicable under Schedule 4.
(2) An employer must not enter into, or purport to enter into a training contract or an employment agreement or any other contract of employment with an apprentice that provides a term or condition of employment that is less favourable to the apprentice than one applicable under clause 6(1) of Schedule 4.
Penalty: 100 penalty units.
S. 5.5.5(3) amended by No. 12/2018 s. 58.
(3) If a training contract or an employment agreement or any other contract of employment to which an apprentice is a party does not at any time comply with a term or condition of employment applicable under clause 6(1) of Schedule 4, it must then, for the purposes of section 26 of the Long Service Leave Act 2018 , be taken to have effect as if it did.
(4) A training contract or an employment agreement or any other contract of employment entered into by an employer in contravention of subsection (2) is not, for that reason only, illegal, void or unenforceable.
Division 4—Training contracts
S. 5.5.6 (Heading) amended by No. 39/2012 s. 6(1).
S. 5.5.6 amended by No. 39/2012 s. 6(2).