13TEmployer decisions about multi-employer pay equity claim

1. Sections 13PA to 13S and 13V apply to employers who have entered a multi-employer pay equity process agreement in accordance with section 13K as follows:

2. the employers must make a joint decision under section 13PB(2) as to whether, in their view, the claim meets all requirements set out in section 13E and, if they decide that it does not, must give joint notice of that decision to the claimant under section 13PB(4):
3. the employers must make a joint decision under section 13Q(1A) as to whether the claim has merit and must give joint notice of that decision to the claimant under section 13S(2)(a) or (3) (as applicable):
4. the employers may give joint notice to the claimant under section 13R extending the time limit:
5. if the employers decide the claim has merit, or are deemed to have decided the claim has merit,—
   1. each employer must individually give notice to affected employees as required by section 13V; and
   2. the employers must jointly enter into the pay equity bargaining process in accordance with the multi-employer pay equity process agreement.