FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 359 Misrepresentation to engage as independent contractor

FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 359

    A person (the employer ) that employs, or has at any time employed, an individual to perform particular work must not make a statement that the employer knows is false in order to persuade or influence the individual to enter into a contract for services under which the individual will perform, as an independent contractor, the same, or substantially the same, work for the employer.

Note:   This section is a civil remedy provision (see Part   4 - 1).