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Employment Relations Act 2000

Institutions - Employment Relations Authority

171: Salaries and allowances

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“How much members of the Employment Relations Authority get paid”

You get paid if you are a member of the Employment Relations Authority. The Remuneration Authority decides how much you get paid. You also get allowances, which are decided by the Remuneration Authority.

If you travel for work, you get travelling allowances and expenses, as stated in the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951. This Act applies to you as if you were a member of a statutory board. The Chief of the Authority or a member who has been given extra responsibilities might get a higher salary and allowances.

You can get paid daily if that is what is decided in your case. The Remuneration Authority decides your salary and allowances, and this can include a daily payment. Sometimes, you might get paid a daily rate, which is decided on a case-by-case basis.

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Part 10 Institutions
Employment Relations Authority

171Salaries and allowances

  1. There is to be paid to each member of the Authority, out of public money, without further appropriation than this section,—

  2. a salary at such rate or in accordance with such scale of rates as the Remuneration Authority from time to time determines; and
    1. subject to subsection (2), such allowances as are from time to time determined by the Remuneration Authority.

      1. There is to be paid to each member of the Authority, in respect of time spent travelling in the exercise of the Authority's functions, travelling allowances and expenses in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951; and the provisions of that Act apply accordingly as if the member were a member of a statutory board and the travelling were in the service of a statutory board.

      2. In the case of the Chief of the Authority or of a member of the Authority to whom a delegation has been made under section 166B, the rate of salary and the allowances determined may be higher than those for the other members of the Authority.

      3. Nothing in subsection (1) prevents in an appropriate case payment to a member of the Authority of a salary and allowances on a per diem basis.

      Compare
      • 1991 No 22 s 86(1)–(3)
      Notes
      • Section 171(1)(a): amended, on , by section 4(1) of the Remuneration Authority (Members of Parliament) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 54).
      • Section 171(1)(b): amended, on , by section 4(1) of the Remuneration Authority (Members of Parliament) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 54).
      • Section 171(3): amended, on , by section 4 of the Regulatory Systems (Workforce) Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 63).