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Employment Relations Act 2000

Collective bargaining - Collective agreements

59: Copy of collective agreement to be delivered to chief executive

You could also call this:

“People who make workplace agreements must give a copy to the boss of a government office”

When you and others make an agreement at work called a collective agreement, you need to give a copy of it to the chief executive as soon as you can after you’ve all agreed to it.

You also need to include any other documents that the agreement refers to or uses, unless those documents are already easy for anyone to find and read.

The Official Information Act 1982 doesn’t apply to these copies of collective agreements that are given to the chief executive. This means they are treated differently from other official information.

The information in these copies of collective agreements can only be used for looking at numbers and patterns. It can’t be used for other purposes.

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Part 5 Collective bargaining
Collective agreements

59Copy of collective agreement to be delivered to chief executive

  1. The parties to a collective agreement must ensure that, as soon as practicable after they enter into the agreement, a copy of the agreement is delivered to the chief executive.

  2. The copy of the agreement delivered to the chief executive must include any document referred to, or incorporated by reference, in the collective agreement, unless the document is publicly available.

  3. Nothing in the Official Information Act 1982 applies to copies of collective agreements delivered to the chief executive under subsection (1).

  4. The information contained in the copies of collective agreements delivered to the chief executive under subsection (1) must be used only for statistical or analytical purposes.