Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1999 - SECT 66

(1) An application can not be made under this part for an order to secure equal remuneration for work of equal or comparable value for an employee if proceedings for an alternative remedy—

(a) to secure the remuneration for the employee; or

(b) against unequal remuneration for work of equal or comparable value for the employee;

have started under another provision of this Act or under another Act.

(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent an application under this part if the proceedings for the alternative remedy have—

(a) been discontinued by the party who started the proceedings; or

(b) failed for want of jurisdiction.

(3) If an application under this part has been made for an order to secure equal remuneration for work of equal or comparable value for an employee, a person is not entitled to start proceedings for an alternative remedy under a provision or Act mentioned in subsection (1)—

(a) to secure the remuneration for the employee; or

(b) against unequal remuneration for work of equal or comparable value for the employee.

(4) Subsection (3) does not prevent proceedings being started for an alternative remedy if the proceedings under this part have—

(a) been discontinued by the party who started the proceedings; or

(b) failed for want of jurisdiction.