Protection from dismissal and loss of wages, etc

(1) Every person who discharges or threatens to discharge an employee from his service because of such employees’ being, becoming or proposing to become a member of the reserve shall be guilty of an offence. (2) Notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law to the contrary, it shall be an offence for an employer of a member of the reserve to hold or to deduct any sum by way of wages or other remuneration or to withhold or deny any privileges or benefit to which an employee would otherwise be entitled in respect of any period during which an employee was bona fide in the service in the reserve for the purpose of attending a training provided for in any regulation made in that behalf or on service in the reserve. (3) Every person who commits an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars and in default of payment thereof to be imprisoned for not more than two years. (4) Upon a complaint being made by the Commander of an alleged offence against this section to the police, the police shall take action to bring the alleged offender before the court. (5) The burden of disproving a charge laid under this section shall be upon the employer.