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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1999 - SECT 85

85 Minimum amount of compensation required

(1) The minimum compensation payable to an employee is at least equal to the total of the amounts the employer would have been liable to pay the employee if the employee's employment had continued until the end of the required notice period.

(2) The total must be worked out on the basis of—

(a) the ordinary working hours worked by the employee; and
(b) the amounts payable to the employee for the hours, including, for example, allowances, loadings and penalties; and
(c) any other amounts payable under the employee's employment contract.

(3) A regulation may prescribe the amount that is taken to be payable, or how to work out the amount, under an employment contract mentioned in subsection (2)(c), to an employee whose wages before dismissal were decided wholly or partly on the basis of commission or piece rates.



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