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Employment Relations Act 2000

General provisions - Improvement notices

223F: Penalty

You could also call this:

“If you don't follow the notice to make things better, you might have to pay money as a punishment.”

If you’re an employer and you don’t follow an improvement notice given to you under section 223D, you can get in trouble. A Labour Inspector can take action against you, and the Employment Relations Authority can make you pay a penalty.

If a Labour Inspector takes action against you for not following an improvement notice, they can’t also try to get you in trouble for the same thing under other related laws.

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Part 11 General provisions
Improvement notices

223FPenalty

  1. An employer who fails to comply with an improvement notice issued under section 223D is liable, in an action brought by a Labour Inspector, to a penalty imposed by the Authority.

  2. If subsection (1) applies, a Labour Inspector may not also bring an action seeking a penalty in respect of the same matter under any of the relevant Acts.

Notes
  • Section 223F: inserted, on , by section 37 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 125).