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Employment Relations Act 2000

Personal grievances, disputes, and enforcement - Personal grievances

111: Definitions relating to personal grievances

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When you have an employment agreement, some terms have special meanings. These terms are personal grievance, discrimination, sexual harassment, adverse treatment in employment of people affected by family violence, racial harassment, duress, adverse conduct for prohibited health and safety reason, adverse conduct for remuneration disclosure reason, and retaliate. These meanings come from sections 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 108A, 109, 110, 110A, 110AB, and 110B unless your agreement says otherwise.

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Part 9Personal grievances, disputes, and enforcement
Personal grievances

111Definitions relating to personal grievances

  1. Each of the terms personal grievance, discrimination, sexual harassment, adverse treatment in employment of people affected by family violence, racial harassment, duress, adverse conduct for prohibited health and safety reason, adverse conduct for remuneration disclosure reason, and retaliate have in any employment agreement the meanings given to those terms by sections 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 108A, 109, 110, 110A, 110AB, and 110B unless the employment agreement gives an extended meaning to the term.

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  • 1991 No 22 s 31
Notes
  • Section 111: amended, on , by section 6(1) of the Employment Relations (Employee Remuneration Disclosure) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 45).
  • Section 111: amended, on , by section 6(2) of the Employment Relations (Employee Remuneration Disclosure) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 45).
  • Section 111: amended, on , by section 40 of the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022 (2022 No 20).
  • Section 111: amended, on , by section 259(1) of the Family Violence Act 2018 (2018 No 46).
  • Section 111: amended, on , by section 10(1) of the Domestic Violence—Victims' Protection Act 2018 (2018 No 21).
  • Section 111: amended, on , by section 10(2) of the Domestic Violence—Victims' Protection Act 2018 (2018 No 21).
  • Section 111: amended, on , by section 9 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 73).