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67B: Effect of trial provision under section 67A
or “This rule explains what happens when a boss ends a worker's job during a trial period.”
You could also call this:

“This explains how you and your boss decide when you'll work and for how long.”

When you and your employer agree on your hours of work, you need to make sure they are written down. If you’re part of a group agreement (called a collective agreement), your hours should be listed in that agreement. If you have extra terms added to the group agreement, your hours should be in those too. If you have your own personal work agreement (called an individual employment agreement), your hours should be written in that.

Your hours of work can include different things. This might be the number of hours you’re guaranteed to work, which days you’ll work, what time you start and finish work, and if there’s any flexibility in your work days or times.

Remember, it’s important to have your work hours clearly written down in your employment agreement. This helps both you and your employer know exactly when you’re expected to work.

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Next up: 67D: Availability provision

or “Rules about when an employer can ask you to be ready for work outside your normal hours”
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Part 6 Individual employees' terms and conditions of employment
Specific terms and conditions of employment

67CAgreed hours of work

  1. Hours of work agreed by an employer and employee must be specified as follows:

  2. in the case of an employee covered by a collective agreement,—
    1. in the collective agreement; and
      1. if section 61 applies, in the employee’s additional terms and conditions of employment included under that section; or
      2. in the case of an employee covered by an individual employment agreement, in the employee’s individual employment agreement.

        1. In subsection (1), hours of work includes any or all of the following:

        2. the number of guaranteed hours of work:
          1. the days of the week on which work is to be performed:
            1. the start and finish times of work:
              1. any flexibility in the matters referred to in paragraph (b) or (c).

                Notes
                • Section 67C: inserted, on , by section 9 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 9).