24Industrial activities

24 Industrial activities

(1) This section only applies to a vessel that:

(a) is a vessel to which the Fair Work Act 2009 does not apply; and

(b) is either registered on the Australian International Shipping Register or a foreign vessel.

(2) The master of a vessel must ensure that a person on board the vessel does not take adverse action against a seafarer because the seafarer:

(a) is or is not, or was or was not, an officer or member of an industrial association; or

(b) engages, or has at any time engaged or proposed to engage, in industrial activity within the meaning of paragraph 347(a) or (b) of the Fair Work Act 2009; or

(c) does not engage, or has at any time not engaged or proposed to not engage, in industrial activity within the meaning of paragraphs 347(c) to (g) of the Fair Work Act 2009.

(3) The owner must not enter into a work agreement with a seafarer if the work agreement prohibits the seafarer from engaging in industrial activity within the meaning of paragraphs 347(c) to (g) of the Fair Work Act 2009.