Section 789AC — Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)

The objects of this Part are to eliminate exploitation of outworkers in the textile, clothing and footwear industry, and to ensure that those outworkers are employed or engaged under secure, safe and fair systems of work, by:

(a) providing nationally consistent rights and protections for those outworkers, regardless of whether they are employees or contractors; and

(b) establishing an effective mechanism by which those outworkers can recover amounts owing to them in relation to their work from other parties in a supply chain; and

(c) providing for a code dealing with standards of conduct and practice to be complied with by parties in a supply chain.

Related sections

• s 789 — Limits on scope of this Division
• s 789AA — Guide to this Part
• s 789AB — Meanings of employee and employer
• s 789BA — Provisions covered by this Division
• s 789BB — TCF contract outworkers taken to be employees in certain circumstances
• s 789BC — Regulations relating to TCF outworkers who are taken to be employees

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