Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) A provision of a training contract or an employment agreement or any other contract of employment to which an apprentice is a party is of no effect to the extent that it provides a term or condition of employment that is less favourable to the apprentice than one applicable under Schedule 4.
(2) An employer must not enter into, or purport to enter into a training contract or an employment agreement or any other contract of employment with an apprentice that provides a term or condition of employment that is less favourable to the apprentice than one applicable under clause 6(1) of Schedule 4.
Penalty: 100 penalty units.
(3) If a training contract or an employment agreement or any other contract of employment to which an apprentice is a party does not at any time comply with a term or condition of employment applicable under clause 6(1) of Schedule 4, it must then, for the purposes of section 160 of the Long Service Leave Act 1992 , be taken to have effect as if it did.
(4) A training contract or an employment agreement or any other contract of employment entered into by an employer in contravention of sub-section (2) is not, for that reason only, illegal, void or unenforceable.