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Discrimination Act 1991
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59 Employment etc
(1) It is unlawful for an employer to subject an employee, or a person
seeking employment, to sexual harassment.
(2) It is unlawful for an employee to subject a fellow employee, or a
person seeking employment with the same employer, to sexual
harassment.
(3) It is unlawful for a principal to subject a commission agent or contract
worker, or a person seeking to become his or her commission agent
or contract worker, to sexual harassment.
(4) It is unlawful for a commission agent or contract worker to subject a
fellow commission agent or contract worker to sexual harassment.
(5) It is unlawful for a partner in a partnership to subject another partner
in the partnership, or a person seeking to become a partner in the
partnership, to sexual harassment.
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(6) It is unlawful for a workplace participant to subject another
workplace participant, or a person seeking to become a workplace
participant at that workplace, to sexual harassment at a place that is a
workplace, or potential workplace, as the case requires, of both of
those people.
(7) In this section:
place includes a ship, aircraft or vehicle.
workplace means a place at which a workplace participant works or
otherwise carries out functions in connection with being a workplace
participant.
workplace participant means any of the following:
(a) an employer or employee;
(b) a commission agent or contract worker;
(c) a partner in a partnership.