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Employment Relations Act 2000

Collective bargaining - Collective agreements

57: Employee bound by only 1 collective agreement in respect of same work

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“Workers can only follow one group agreement for their job, even if they belong to multiple unions.”

If you belong to more than one union, you can only be bound by one collective agreement for the work you do. This agreement will be the one that came from the first bargaining process that covered your work. This means that even if you’re in multiple unions, only one agreement will apply to your job.

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Part 5 Collective bargaining
Collective agreements

57Employee bound by only 1 collective agreement in respect of same work

  1. If an employee is a member of more than 1 union, the employee is bound by only 1 collective agreement covering the same work done by the employee, being the collective agreement resulting from the bargaining first initiated which covered the employee's work.