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Victimisation

Last updated August 2019

This chapter explains what victimisation is and what actions an employee can take against you if they are victimised in your workplace.

What is victimisation?

Definition: Victimisation

Victimisation occurs when a person treats a worker unfairly due to that worker having made a workplace complaint.

Unlawful victimisation is:

  • subjecting or threatening to subject the other person to any detriment; and
  • a substantial reason for the treatment is because the other person, or a person associated with the other person, has made a work complaint.
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