Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

Remedies available to employees

58: Power to refer complaint to Employment Relations Authority

You could also call this:

“The Employment Relations Authority can help solve parental leave problems”

If you have a complaint about parental leave that you and the other person can’t solve together, you can ask the Employment Relations Authority to help. The Employment Relations Authority is a special group that deals with problems at work.

When the Employment Relations Authority looks at your complaint, they will read the written statement about your complaint. They will also listen to any information or arguments that you or the other person want to share. The Authority can also think about other things they believe are important to help solve the problem.

Before the Authority makes a decision, they might try to help you and the other person talk and work things out together. This is called mediation. But if mediation doesn’t work or isn’t used, the Authority will make a decision about your complaint.

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Part 7 Remedies available to employees

58Power to refer complaint to Employment Relations Authority

  1. Where a parental leave complaint is not disposed of between the parties, it may be referred to the Employment Relations Authority.

  2. The Employment Relations Authority must, subject to any decision to provide mediation services, proceed to hear and determine the complaint and, in doing so, must consider—

  3. the written statement of the complaint required by section 57(5); and
    1. any evidence or submissions given by or on behalf of the parties; and
      1. such other matters as the Employment Relations Authority thinks fit.
        Notes
        • Section 58: substituted, on , by section 240 of the Employment Relations Act 2000 (2000 No 24).