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Employment Relations Act 2000

Strikes and lockouts - Specified pay deductions in relation to partial strike

95B: Employer may make specified pay deductions in relation to partial strike

You could also call this:

“If workers do a small strike, the boss can take away some of their pay.”

This section of the law used to allow your employer to make certain pay deductions if you were involved in a partial strike. However, this rule no longer applies. It was removed from the Employment Relations Act 2000 on 12 December 2018.

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95A: Meaning of partial strike and specified pay deduction, or

“This part explains what it means when workers partly stop working and how their pay might be cut.”

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95C: Notice of specified pay deduction, or

“Employers must tell workers about money taken from their pay for not doing all their work.”

Part 8 Strikes and lockouts
Specified pay deductions in relation to partial strike

95BEmployer may make specified pay deductions in relation to partial strike (Repealed)

    Notes
    • Section 95B: repealed, on , by section 29 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 53).