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243: Enforcement of existing collective employment contracts
or “Old group work agreements still count and can be used in labour disputes”
You could also call this:

“How old work agreements stay valid and what happens when they end”

If you are part of a collective employment contract that stays in effect under section 243, you need to know that it’s treated like a collective agreement for some parts of the law. This matters for sections 40(2), 41, and Part 8 of the Employment Relations Act 2000.

The contract will be considered to end on whichever of these dates comes first:

  1. The date your contract says it will end, or
  2. 31 July 2003

However, you should also know that section 246 might change how this works in some cases.

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Part 11 General provisions
Transitional provisions

244Existing collective employment contracts and collective bargaining

  1. Subject to section 246, a collective employment contract that is continued in force by section 243 is, for the purpose of sections 40(2) and 41 and Part 8, to be treated as if it were a collective agreement and as if the date of the expiry of that collective agreement were the earlier of—

  2. the date on which the collective employment contract is expressed to expire; or
    1. 31 July 2003.