The goal of this law is to help you have a good relationship with your employer. This law wants to make sure you and your employer trust each other and work well together. It also wants to make sure you are treated fairly.
This law aims to achieve this by promoting good faith in the workplace. Good faith means being honest and fair with each other. It also means recognising that you and your employer have different levels of power, and trying to balance that out.
The law wants to encourage you and your employer to work together to solve problems. It suggests using mediation, which is a way of talking through problems with a neutral person to help you reach an agreement. The law also wants to make sure that you are protected and that your rights are enforced.
The law also wants to make sure that New Zealand follows international rules about workers' rights, such as the right to join a union and bargain collectively. You can find more information about these rules in International Labour Organisation Convention 87 on Freedom of Association, and Convention 98 on the Right to Organise and Bargain Collectively. The law gives Labour Inspectors, the Authority, and the court the power to enforce employment standards, which are the rules that employers must follow to treat you fairly.
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