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Employment Relations Act 2000

Recognition and operation of unions - Access to workplaces

19: Workplace does not include dwellinghouse

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"A place where someone lives is not counted as a workplace when it comes to certain rules."

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For sections 20 to 25 of this law, a workplace does not include a dwellinghouse. This means that if you live in a house, it is not considered a workplace under these specific parts of the law. When the law talks about workplaces in these sections, it is not talking about people's homes.

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19Workplace does not include dwellinghouse

  1. For the purposes of sections 20 to 25, workplace does not include a dwellinghouse.