Employment Relations Act 2000

Personal grievances, disputes, and enforcement - Personal grievances

112: Choice of procedures

You could also call this:

"Picking which law to use to solve a work problem"

If you have a problem at work, you might be able to take action under the Employment Relations Act or the Human Rights Act 1993. You can choose one or the other, but not both. You can either apply to the Authority to resolve your problem or make a complaint under the Human Rights Act 1993. If you apply to the Authority, you cannot then make a complaint under the Human Rights Act 1993 about the same problem. If you make a complaint under the Human Rights Act 1993, you cannot then apply to the Authority about the same problem.

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Part 9Personal grievances, disputes, and enforcement
Personal grievances

112Choice of procedures

  1. Where the circumstances giving rise to a personal grievance by an employee are also such that that employee would be entitled to make a complaint under the Human Rights Act 1993, the employee may take 1, but not both, of the following steps:

  2. the employee may, if the grievance is not otherwise resolved, apply to the Authority for the resolution of the grievance:
    1. the employee may make, in relation to those circumstances, a complaint under the Human Rights Act 1993.
      1. For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), an employee makes a complaint when proceedings in relation to that complaint are commenced by the complainant or the Commission.

      2. If an employee applies to the Authority for a resolution of the grievance under subsection (1)(a), the employee may not exercise or continue to exercise any rights in relation to the subject matter of the grievance that the employee may have under the Human Rights Act 1993.

      3. If an employee makes a complaint under subsection (1)(b), the employee may not exercise or continue to exercise any rights in relation to the subject matter of the complaint that the employee may have under this Act.

      Compare
      • 1991 No 22 s 39
      Notes
      • Section 112(2): substituted, on , by section 71(1) of the Human Rights Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 96).
      • Section 112(3): added, on , by section 41 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 86).
      • Section 112(4): added, on , by section 41 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 86).