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65: Form and content of individual employment agreement
or “Rules for writing down what you and your boss agree about your job”
You could also call this:

“Your job can take money from your pay for union fees if you say it's okay.”

If you’re a member of a union, your employment agreement is treated as if it includes a rule about deducting union fees. This means your employer must take out your union fee from your pay regularly throughout the year, but only if you agree to it.

You and your employer can change this rule in your employment agreement if you both want to. You can decide not to have this deduction or change how it works.

When your employer takes out your union fees from your pay, they must give this money to your union. They’ll do this following any agreement they have with the union about how to pay the fees.

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Part 6 Individual employees' terms and conditions of employment
Specific terms and conditions of employment

65ADeduction of union fees

  1. An individual employment agreement of an employee who is a member of a union is to be treated as if it contains a provision that requires the employee's employer to deduct, with the consent of the employee, the employee's union fee from the employee's salary or wages on a regular basis during the year.

  2. An individual employment agreement may exclude or vary the effect of subsection (1).

  3. Union fees deducted from an employee's salary or wages under subsection (1) must be paid to the union concerned in accordance with any arrangement agreed with the union.

Notes
  • Section 65A: inserted, on , by section 26 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 86).