Part 4Pay equity claims
Settling pay equity claim
13ZNRelationship between pay equity claims and collective bargaining
The entry into a collective agreement in accordance with the collective bargaining provisions of the Employment Relations Act 2000 by an employer and a union does not settle or extinguish an unsettled pay equity claim to which the employer is a party.
The existence of an unsettled pay equity claim between an employer and an employee
is not a genuine reason for failing to conclude collective bargaining between that employer and a union representing the employer’s employees for the purposes of section 33 of the Employment Relations Act 2000.
Notes
- Section 13ZN: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 45).
- Section 13ZN(2): amended, on , by section 33 of the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 21).