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Employment Relations Act 2000

Bargaining fees

69T: Bargaining fee clause binding on employer and employee

You could also call this:

“The employer must take money from the worker's pay and give it to the union if there's a special agreement.”

When a bargaining fee clause applies to you as an employee, it becomes binding on both you and your employer. This means your employer must take the bargaining fee out of your wages and give it to the union involved. You don’t have a choice about this once the clause is in effect.

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“Non-union workers covered by a collective agreement must pay a bargaining fee if they meet certain conditions.”

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“The fee for bargaining help can't be more than what union members pay.”

Part 6B Bargaining fees

69TBargaining fee clause binding on employer and employee

  1. While a bargaining fee clause applies to an employee,—

  2. the clause is binding on the employee and his or her employer; and
    1. the employer must deduct the bargaining fee from the employee's wages and pay it to the union concerned.

      Notes
      • Section 69T: inserted, on , by section 30 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 86).