Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00176:clause:1_15
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00176
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 15
Character Range: 12236–13689

15  Subsections 24(1) to (3)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:

 (1) An employee may request his or her employer to:
 (a) establish designated work groups in respect of employees of the employer; or
 (b) vary designated work groups that have already been established.

 (1A) An employee representative in respect of an employee of an employer may, if requested by the employee, request the employer to:
 (a) establish designated work groups in respect of employees of the employer; or
 (b) vary designated work groups that have already been established.

 (2) The employer must, within 14 days after receiving a request under subsection (1) or (1A), enter into consultations to establish or vary (as the case requires) designated work groups with:
 (a) the employer's employees; and
 (b) if an employee of the employer requests that the employer enter into consultations with an employee representative in relation to the employee—that employee representative.

 (3) If an employer believes that designated work groups should be varied, the employer may at any time enter into consultations about the variation with:
 (a) the health and safety representative of each designated work group proposed to be varied; and
 (b) if an employee in a designated work group proposed to be varied requests that the employer also enter into such consultations with an employee representative in relation to the designated work group—that employee representative.