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4A: Penalty for certain breaches of duty of good faith
or “You can get in trouble for breaking the rules about being fair at work.”
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“Employers must keep detailed records to show they follow the rules about workers' basic rights.”

As an employer, you must keep detailed records that show you have followed the minimum entitlement rules. This means you need to write down information that proves you’re giving your workers what they’re legally supposed to get.

You have to do this on top of any other record-keeping that the law already tells you to do. This includes both the Employment Relations Act and any other laws that say you need to keep records.

This rule is about making sure you can prove you’re treating your workers fairly and following the law. It’s important to keep good records so you can show that you’re doing the right thing by your employees.

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Part 1 Key provisions
Records relating to minimum entitlement provisions

4BEmployer’s general obligation to keep records relating to minimum entitlement provisions

  1. An employer must keep records in sufficient detail to demonstrate that the employer has complied with minimum entitlement provisions.

  2. The obligation in subsection (1) is in addition to the requirements in the other provisions of this Act or any other enactment relating to the keeping of records.

Notes
  • Section 4B: inserted, on , by section 5 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 9).