14Termination of employment after resumption etc.

14 Termination of employment after resumption etc.

(1) Where an employer has, in accordance with this Part, permitted a member to resume work or reinstated a member in employment after a period of absence on Defence service, the employer shall not, within a period after the member resumes work or is reinstated in employment equal to the period of absence, without reasonable cause, terminate the employment of the member or vary it by employing the member in an occupation, or under conditions, less favourable to the member than the occupation in which, or the conditions under which, the member was employed when he resumed work or was reinstated in employment.

Penalty: Two hundred dollars.

(2) In any proceedings for an offence against the last preceding subsection, the burden is upon the employer to prove that he had reasonable cause for terminating or varying the employment. (3) This section does not apply in relation to a member employed under a contract of apprenticeship.