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Retail Trading Act 2008
3AMeaning of “freely elected to work”
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3A Meaning of “freely elected to work”
3A Meaning of “freely elected to work”
For the purposes of this Act, a person has not freely elected to work on a day—
(a) if the person works on the day because the person has been coerced, harassed, threatened or intimidated by or on behalf of the occupier of the shop or on behalf of the bank, or
(b) merely because the person is rostered, or required by the terms of an industrial instrument, to work on that day.
s 3A: Ins 2015 No 55, Sch 1 [1].