Employee requests for secondary employment, training and professional development during a jobkeeper enabling stand down

 

See Fair Work Act s.789GU

If a jobkeeper enabling stand down direction applies to an employee, the employee may ask their employer:

  • to engage in reasonable secondary employment
  • for training
  • for professional development.

The employer:

  • must consider the request, and
  • must not unreasonably refuse the request.

If the employer does not consider or unreasonably refuses the request, they contravene a civil remedy provision.

A civil remedy provision is a provision of the Fair Work Act that if breached, means that the person affected can apply to a Court for an order for a financial penalty against the alleged wrong-doer, or any other order the Court considers appropriate such as an injunction.

Updated time

Last updated

15 September 2020

 

 

 

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