Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150:section:557:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 557 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1619870–1622993

557  Course of conduct
 (1) For the purposes of this Part, 2 or more contraventions of a civil remedy provision referred to in subsection (2) are, subject to subsection (3), taken to constitute a single contravention if:
 (a) the contraventions are committed by the same person; and
 (b) the contraventions arose out of a course of conduct by the person.
 (2) The civil remedy provisions are the following:
 (a) section 44 (which deals with contraventions of the National Employment Standards);
 (b) section 45 (which deals with contraventions of modern awards);
 (c) section 50 (which deals with contraventions of enterprise agreements);
 (d) section 280 (which deals with contraventions of workplace determinations);
 (e) section 293 (which deals with contraventions of national minimum wage orders);
 (f) section 305 (which deals with contraventions of equal remuneration orders);
 (fa) subsection 306F(2) (which deals with the protected rate of pay payable to employees covered by a regulated labour hire arrangement order);
 (fb) subsection 306H(3) (which deals with the obligations of regulated hosts covered by a regulated labour hire arrangement order);
 (fc) subsection 306N(3) (which deals with the contravention of alternative protected rate of pay orders);
 (fd) subsection 306Q(7) (which deals with the contravention of arbitrated protected rate of pay orders);
 (g) subsection 323(1) (which deals with methods and frequency of payment);
 (h) subsection 323(3) (which deals with methods of payment specified in modern awards or enterprise agreements);
 (i) subsection 325(1) (which deals with unreasonable requirements on employees to spend or pay amounts);
 (ia) subsection 325(1A) (which deals with unreasonable requirements on prospective employees to spend or pay amounts);
 (j) subsection 417(1) (which deals with industrial action before the nominal expiry date of an enterprise agreement etc.);
 (k) subsection 421(1) (which deals with contraventions of orders in relation to industrial action);
 (l) section 434 (which deals with contraventions of Ministerial directions in relation to industrial action);
 (la) subsection 527D(1) (which deals with sexual harassment in connection with work);
 (m) subsection 530(4) (which deals with notifying Centrelink of certain proposed dismissals);
 (n) subsections 535(1), (2) and (4) (which deal with employer obligations in relation to employee records);
 (o) subsections 536(1), (2) and (3) (which deal with employer obligations in relation to pay slips);
 (oa) subsections 536AA(1) and (2) (which deal with employer obligations in relation to advertising rates of pay);
 (ob) section 536JB (which deals with contraventions of minimum standards orders);
 (oc) section 536JJ (which deals with contraventions of collective agreements);
 (od) section 536NK (which deals with contraventions of orders under Division 4 of Part 3A‑5);
 (oe) section 536NP (which deals with contraventions of road transport contractual chain orders);
 (p) section 745 (which deals with contraventions of the extended parental leave provisions);
 (paa) section 757BA (which deals with