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Employment Relations Act 2000

Additional provisions relating to enforcement of employment standards - Compensation orders

142L: Terms of compensation orders

You could also call this:

“This explains how a court can decide to give money to workers who have been treated unfairly at work.”

If section 142J applies, the court can make an order to compensate you if you’re an employee who has been wronged. The court will decide what’s fair to make up for any loss or damage you’ve experienced, or to stop it from happening.

The court can tell the person who caused the problem to pay you money to cover your loss or damage. This could be all or part of what you’ve lost.

The court isn’t limited to just ordering someone to pay you money. They can make other kinds of orders too, if they think it will help fix the situation.

When the law talks about a “relevant person”, it means either the person who broke the rules, or anyone else who was involved in breaking the rules. These are the people who might have to pay you or do something else to make things right.

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Part 9A Additional provisions relating to enforcement of employment standards
Compensation orders

142LTerms of compensation orders

  1. If section 142J applies, the court may make any order it thinks just to compensate an aggrieved employee in whole or in part for the loss or damage, or to prevent or reduce the loss or damage, referred to in that section.

  2. An order under this section may include an order to direct a relevant person to pay to the aggrieved employee the amount of the loss or damage (in whole or in part).

  3. Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1).

  4. In this section, relevant person means—

  5. any person in breach; or
    1. any person involved in the breach.

      Notes
      • Section 142L: inserted, on , by section 19 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 9).