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Employment Relations Act 2000

Personal grievances, disputes, and enforcement - Penalties

134: Penalties for breach of employment agreement

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“If you break the rules in your work agreement or help someone else break them, you might have to pay money as a punishment.”

If you are part of an employment agreement and you break the rules in that agreement, you can be punished. This punishment is called a penalty.

If you help someone else break the rules in an employment agreement, you can also be punished. This includes if you encourage someone to break the rules, help them break the rules, or give them ideas about how to break the rules.

The Authority, which is a group that deals with employment issues, can give out these penalties to people who break the rules or help others break the rules in employment agreements.

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Part 9 Personal grievances, disputes, and enforcement
Penalties

134Penalties for breach of employment agreement

  1. Every party to an employment agreement who breaches that agreement is liable to a penalty under this Act.

  2. Every person who incites, instigates, aids, or abets any breach of an employment agreement is liable to a penalty imposed by the Authority.

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  • 1991 No 22 s 52