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69ZB: Penalty
or “If employers don't provide proper breastfeeding breaks and facilities, they might have to pay a fine.”
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“This part explains what 'work period' means in simple terms, including when work starts, ends, and any breaks in between.”

In this part of the law, a ‘work period’ has a specific meaning. It’s the time from when you start work to when you finish work, based on your job’s terms and conditions. This includes all the breaks you’re allowed to take or are entitled to during this time, whether you get paid for them or not.

When you’re reading this part of the law, ‘work period’ always means this unless it’s clear from the context that it means something else.

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Next up: 69ZD: Employee’s entitlement to, and employer’s duty to provide, rest breaks and meal breaks

or “Workers get breaks during their work day, and bosses must give them these breaks.”
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Part 6D Rest breaks and meal breaks

69ZCInterpretation

  1. In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires, work period—

  2. means the period—
    1. beginning with the time at which, in accordance with an employee’s terms and conditions of employment, an employee starts work; and
      1. ending with the time at which, in accordance with an employee’s terms and conditions of employment, an employee finishes work; and
      2. includes all authorised breaks (whether paid or not) provided to an employee or to which an employee is entitled during the period specified in paragraph (a).

        Notes
        • Section 69ZC: replaced, on , by section 43 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 53).