Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00183:clause:1_254:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00183
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 254 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 749745–751094

absence was for the purpose of carrying out duties or exercising rights as an officer of an industrial association; and
 (ii) the employee or independent contractor applied for leave before absenting himself or herself and leave was unreasonably refused or withheld; or
 (o) as an officer or member of an industrial association, has done, or proposes to do, an act or thing for the purpose of furthering or protecting the industrial interests of the industrial association, being an act or thing that is:
 (i) lawful; and
 (ii) within the limits of an authority expressly conferred on the employee, independent contractor or other person by the industrial association under its rules; or
 (p) in the case of an employee or independent contractor—has not paid, has not agreed to pay, or does not propose to pay, a bargaining services fee.

 (2) If:
 (a) a threat is made to engage in conduct referred to in subsection 253(1) or (4); and
 (b) one of the prohibited reasons in subsection (1) of this section refers to a person doing or proposing to do a particular act, or not doing or proposing not to do a particular act; and
 (c) the threat is made with the intent of dissuading or preventing the person from doing the act, or coercing the person to do the act, as the case requires;
the threat is taken to have been made for that prohibited reason.