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244: Existing collective employment contracts and collective bargaining
or “How old work agreements stay valid and what happens when they end”
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“Old rules for solving work problems are replaced by new ones”

When this law starts, the old ways of dealing with problems at work will no longer work. This applies to both individual and group job contracts that were in place before. The old rules for handling disputes and personal grievances will stop working.

Instead, you and your employer will need to use the new way of solving problems that this law sets up. This new system will apply to everyone, whether you have an individual contract or are part of a group contract.

There are some exceptions to this change, which you can find in sections 247 and 248 of this law. These sections might have special rules about how to deal with certain situations.

Remember, this change happens as soon as the new law starts. From that day, you’ll need to use the new problem-solving system if you have any issues at work.

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Part 11 General provisions
Transitional provisions

245Existing procedures in relation to disputes and personal grievances

  1. Subject to sections 247 and 248, the grievance and disputes procedures that, under section 32 or section 44 of the Employment Contracts Act 1991, are contained—

  2. in any individual employment contract that is continued in force by section 242; or
    1. in any collective employment contract that is continued in force by section 243—
        1. are, as from the commencement of this Act, of no effect.

      1. Subject to sections 247 and 248,—

      2. the parties to every individual employment contract that is continued in force by section 242; and
        1. the parties to every collective employment contract that is continued in force by section 243—
            1. are, as from the commencement of this Act, subject to the problem resolution regime provided for in this Act.