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162: Application of law relating to contracts
or “The Employment Relations Authority can make decisions about work agreements just like a court can.”
You could also call this:

“The Employment Relations Authority can't change or cancel parts of agreements made between workers and bosses.”

The Employment Relations Authority cannot cancel or change a collective agreement or any part of it. This rule applies even when the Authority is using its powers under section 162 or any other part of the Employment Relations Act 2000. You should know that a collective agreement is a special kind of contract between workers and their employers. The Authority has to respect these agreements and can’t interfere with them, no matter what other powers it might have.

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or “Rules about changing job agreements when there are problems that can't be fixed by talking it out”
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Part 10 Institutions
Employment Relations Authority

163Restriction on Authority's power in relation to collective agreements

  1. The Authority may not, under section 162 or any other provision of this Act, make in respect of a collective agreement an order cancelling or varying the agreement or any term of the agreement.

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  • 1991 No 22 s 104(2)