Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) An employer shall not prevent any employee and a parent or guardian shall not prevent any son or ward from rendering the personal service required of him or her under Part IV.
(2) An employer shall not in any way penalize or prejudice in his or her employment any employee for rendering or being liable to render the personal service required of him the employee under Part IV, either by reducing his or her wages or dismissing him or her from his or her employment or in any other way.
(3) The rendering of the personal service or the enlistment referred to in this section shall not terminate a contract of employment, but the contract shall be suspended during the absence of the employee for the purposes referred to in this section; but nothing in this section shall render the employer liable to pay an employee for any time when he or she is absent from employment for the purposes referred to in this section.
(4) In any proceedings for an offence against this section it shall lie upon the employer to show that any employee proved to have been dismissed or to have been prejudiced or penalized in his or her employment or to have suffered a reduction of wages, was so dismissed penalized or prejudiced in his or her employment or reduced for some reason other than that of having rendered the personal service required of him or her under Part IV, either within or without the limits of Australia.
(5) The Court may direct that the whole or any part of the penalty recovered from an employer for an offence against this section shall be paid to the employee.