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Employment Relations Act 2000

Collective bargaining - Facilitating bargaining

50D: Limitation on which member of Authority may provide facilitation

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“The person helping with bargaining can't be the same person who agreed to help in the first place.”

When you ask for help with collective bargaining, the Employment Relations Authority will assign a member to assist you. This person is called a facilitator. The rule says that the facilitator who helps with your collective bargaining must be different from the member who first accepted your request for help. This means two different people from the Authority will be involved in your case: one to accept your request, and another to actually help you with the bargaining process.

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“The Authority privately helps people talk about work agreements, but can't investigate or be questioned about how they do it.”

Part 5 Collective bargaining
Facilitating bargaining

50DLimitation on which member of Authority may provide facilitation

  1. A member of the Authority who facilitates collective bargaining must not be the member of the Authority who accepted the reference for facilitation.

Notes
  • Section 50D: inserted, on , by section 14 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 86).