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Employment Relations Act 2000

Flexible working - Resolving disputes

69AAI: Application to Authority

You could also call this:

"Asking the Authority to Help with a Problem at Work"

If you think your employer has not done what they should have, according to section 69AAE, and talking about it has not fixed the problem, you can ask the Authority to help. You can ask the Authority to decide if your employer has done what they should have, according to section 69AAE. You must ask the Authority within 12 months of a certain date.

The certain date is when your employer told you they would not do what you asked, if they told you within one month of you asking. If your employer did not tell you within one month, the date is one month after you asked them. This certain date is called the relevant date.

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Part 6AAFlexible working
Resolving disputes

69AAIApplication to Authority

  1. This section applies if—

  2. an employee believes that his or her employer has not complied with section 69AAE; and
    1. mediation has not resolved the matter.

      1. The employee may apply to the Authority for a determination as to whether the employer has complied with section 69AAE.

      2. An application under subsection (2) must be made within 12 months after the relevant date.

      3. Repealed

      4. In subsection (3), relevant date means,—

      5. if the employer notifies a refusal within 1 month after receiving a request, the date on which the employer notifies the employee of the employer's refusal:
        1. in any other case, the date 1 month after the employer received the employee's request.

          Notes
          • Section 69AAI: inserted, on , by section 5 of the Employment Relations (Flexible Working Arrangements) Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 105).
          • Section 69AAI(4): repealed, on , by section 29(1) of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 61).
          • Section 69AAI(5)(a): amended, on , by section 29(2) of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 61).
          • Section 69AAI(5)(b): amended, on , by section 29(2) of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 61).