Under the Fair Work Act, your employees are protected from discrimination in a number of ways.

These protections are known as general protections, and if they are breached, serious penalties can be imposed.

You cannot breach an employee’s workplace rights!

Workplace rights give your employees the freedom to exercise and enforce their employment entitlements. For example, if an employee has an entitlement to take leave on a particular day, they have the right to enforce that entitlement.

This means that an employee cannot be discriminated against because they have a workplace right.

The same goes for freedom of association rights.

Every employee is entitled to be associated with a union or be involved in other industrial activity. This means that you cannot discriminate against an employee because of their participation in industrial activity.

General protections legislation also protects your employees in a number of other ways. For more information, please refer to the General Protections chapter in your Employment Law Practical Handbook.

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Regards,

Charles Power
Editor-in-Chief
Employment Law Practical Handbook

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