Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to an authorised industrial officer who has entered a workplace under section 372.
(2) The officer may inspect the time and wages record of—
(a) a member employee; or
(b) an employee who is eligible to become a member of the officer's organisation.
(2A) The officer may also inspect a record required to be kept under the code made under section 400I.
(3) The employer—
(a) must allow the officer to inspect the record for an employee mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (b), unless the employee has made a written request to the employer that the record not be available for inspection by an authorised industrial officer or a particular authorised industrial officer; and
(b) must not allow the officer to inspect the record for an employee who has made a written request to the employer that the record not be available for inspection by an authorised industrial officer or a particular authorised industrial officer; and
(c) must allow the officer to inspect the record mentioned in subsection (2A).
Maximum penalty—27 penalty units.
(3A) The officer may make a copy of the time and wages record or the record mentioned in subsection (2A), but can not require any help from the employer.
(4) A person must not, by threats or intimidation, persuade or attempt to persuade an employee or prospective employee to make, or refuse to make, a written request to the employer or prospective employer that the record not be available for inspection by an authorised industrial officer.
Maximum penalty—27 penalty units.
(5) If the employer keeps particulars other than those mentioned in section 366 in the record, the employer need not make the other particulars available for inspection.
(6) The officer may discuss matters under this Act with the following persons during working or non-working time—
(a) the employer;
(b) a member employee, or an employee who is eligible to become a member of the officer's organisation.
(7) The officer may discuss any other matter with a member employee, or an employee who is eligible to become a member of the officer's organisation, during non-working time.
(8) A person must not obstruct the officer exercising a power under subsection (6) or (7).
Maximum penalty—27 penalty units.
(9) The officer must not—
(a) wilfully obstruct the employer, or an employee during the employee's working time; or
(b) contravene a requirement of this section.
Maximum penalty—27 penalty units.
(10) A person must not act as an authorised industrial officer under this section, unless the person holds a current authorisation.
Maximum penalty—27 penalty units.
(11) In this section—
member employee means—
(a) an employee who is a member of the authorised industrial officer's organisation; or
(b) a former employee who was, or is, a member of the officer's organisation.
time and wages record means the time and wages record required to be kept under section 366.