Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An employer must not dismiss a worker, or otherwise act to the detriment of a worker in the worker's employment, for the dominant or substantial reason that the worker—
(a) has made a complaint about an issue, or in any other way has raised an issue, about exposure to electrical risk; or
(b) has contacted or given help to an inspector.
Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.
Examples of acting to the detriment of a worker—
1 demotion of the worker
2 unwarranted transfer of the worker
3 reducing the worker's terms and conditions of employment
(2) If an employer contravenes subsection (1) by dismissing a worker, the worker is taken to have been unfairly dismissed under the Industrial Relations Act 1999, chapter 3, part 2, and subject to that part, has the remedies under that part.