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Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
112Civil proceedings in relation to engaging in or inducing
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112 Civil proceedings in relation to engaging in or inducing
discriminatory or coercive conduct
(1) An eligible person may apply to the Work Health Court for an order
Division 3 Civil proceedings in relation to discriminatory or coercive conduct
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(2) The court may make one or more of the orders set out in
subsection (3) in relation to a person who has:
(a) engaged in discriminatory conduct for a prohibited reason; or
(b) requested, instructed, induced, encouraged, authorised or
assisted another person to engage in discriminatory conduct
for a prohibited reason; or
(c) contravened section 108.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the orders that the court may
make are:
(a) an injunction; or
(b) in the case of conduct referred to in subsection (2)(a) or (b),
an order that the person pay (within a specified period) the
compensation to the person who was the subject of the
discriminatory conduct that the court considers appropriate; or
(c) in the case of conduct referred to in subsection (2)(a) in
relation to a worker who was or is an employee or prospective
employee, an order that:
(i) the worker be reinstated or re-employed in his or her
former position or, if that position is not available, in a
similar position; or
(ii) the prospective worker be employed in the position for
which he or she had applied or a similar position; or
(d) any other order that the court considers appropriate.
(4) For the purposes of this section, a person may be found to have
engaged in discriminatory conduct for a prohibited reason only if a
reason referred to in section 106 was a substantial reason for the
conduct.
(5) Nothing in this section is to be construed as limiting any other
power of the court.
(6) For the purposes of this section, each of the following is an eligible
(a) a person affected by the contravention;
(b) a person authorised as a representative by a person referred
to in paragraph (a).
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