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Employment Relations Act 2000

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Schedule 1A: Employees to whom subpart 1 of Part 6A applies

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"Workers in schools, hospitals, and other jobs who are covered by this part of the law"

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You work in jobs like cleaning or food catering. These jobs are in schools, hospitals, or other workplaces. You might work in age-related residential care or the public service. You could work in airports or other workplaces too. Some people work in security, like guarding property or monitoring cameras. They might work in courts or collect cash from premises. There are some exceptions, like court security officers or police employees. These people are not included in this part of the law. You can check the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 or the Corrections Act 2004 for more information. You can also look at the Public Service Act 2020 or the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 for more details.

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1AEmployees to whom subpart 1 of Part 6A applies Empowered by ss 69C, 237A

Employees who provide the following services in the specified sectors, facilities, or places of work:

  • cleaning services, food catering services, caretaking, or laundry services for the education sector (being the public and private pre-school, primary, secondary, and tertiary educational institutions):
    1. cleaning services, food catering services, orderly services, or laundry services for the health sector (being any hospital, as defined by the Hospitals Act 1957 and any hospital within the meaning of the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992):
      1. cleaning services, food catering services, orderly services, or laundry services in the age-related residential care sector:
        1. cleaning services or food catering services in the public service (as defined in section 10 of the Public Service Act 2020) or local government sector:
          1. cleaning services or food catering services in relation to any airport facility or for the aviation sector:
            1. cleaning services or food catering services in relation to any other workplace:
              1. services in the security sector,—
                1. including any 1 or more of the following in any workplace:
                  1. guarding real or personal property belonging to another person:
                    1. monitoring in real time, from any part of a premises, images from a camera or similar device on the same premises:
                      1. services provided by a crowd controller employee (as defined in section 19 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010):
                        1. escort duty and courtroom custodial duty as those terms are defined in section 3 of the Corrections Act 2004:
                          1. mobile security patrols:
                            1. collecting cash from any premises; but
                            2. excluding services of the type described in the following sections of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010:
                              1. section 13 (meaning of private investigator employee):
                                1. section 14 (meaning of security technician employee):
                                  1. section 15 (meaning of security consultant employee):
                                    1. section 16 (meaning of confidential document destruction agent employee):
                                      1. section 16A (meaning of repossession employee):
                                        1. section 18 (meaning of personal guard employee); and
                                        2. excluding services carried out by any of the following persons:
                                          1. an appointed court security officer (as defined in section 2 of the Courts Security Act 1999):
                                            1. an officer (as defined in section 3(1) of the Corrections Act 2004) other than a person appointed or engaged under section 17(2) of that Act to undertake escort duties or courtroom custodial duties:
                                              1. a Police employee (as defined in section 4 of the Policing Act 2008):
                                                1. a parliamentary security officer (as defined in section 5 of the Parliament Act 2025).
                                                2. Notes
                                                • Schedule 1A paragraph (d): amended, on , by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).
                                                • Schedule 1A paragraph (f): amended, on , by section 12 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 73).
                                                • Schedule 1A paragraph (g): inserted, on , by clause 4 (and see clause 3 for transitional provisions) of the Employment Relations (Extending Part 6A Protections to Security Officers) Order 2021 (LI 2021/58).
                                                • Schedule 1A paragraph (g)(iii)(D): inserted, on , by section 51 of the Parliament (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 63).