9Employer not to penalize person on account of service

9 Employer not to penalize person on account of service

(1) An employer shall not penalize a person employed by him, or prejudice such a person in his employment, whether by reducing his salary or wages, dismissing him or in any other way, for the reason that that person is rendering service or liable to render service in a part of the Emergency Forces or of the Reserve Forces.

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 the person proved to have been penalized or prejudiced in his employment was so penalized or prejudiced for some reason other than the reason alleged in the charge.