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69AAL: Review of operation of Part after 2 years
or “The law will be checked after two years to see how well it's working.”
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“This part explains how workers affected by family violence can ask for short-term changes to their work to help them cope.”

This part of the law aims to help you if you’re affected by family violence. It gives you the right to ask for a short-term change in how you work. This change can last up to two months and is meant to help you deal with the effects of family violence.

Your employer must respond to your request quickly, no later than 10 working days after they get it. They can only say no if you don’t provide proof of family violence when asked, or if they really can’t make the changes you need.

If your employer doesn’t handle your request properly, you can get help. You can talk to a Labour Inspector, use mediation, or go to the Employment Relations Authority.

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or “This section explains important words and ideas used in the law about flexible work for people affected by family violence.”
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Part 6AB Flexible working short-term for people affected by family violence

69ABObject of this Part

  1. The object of this Part is to—

  2. provide employees who are people affected by family violence with a statutory right to make, or to have made on their behalf, a request for a short-term (2-month or shorter) variation of their working arrangements (including any additional terms that need variation), for the purpose of assisting the employees to deal with the effects on the employees of being people affected by family violence; and
    1. require an employer to deal with a request as soon as possible but not later than 10 working days after receiving it; and
      1. provide that an employer may refuse a request only if proof of family violence is required and not produced, or the request cannot be accommodated reasonably on certain non-accommodation grounds; and
        1. if an employer does not deal with a request in accordance with this Part, provide for reference of the matter to a Labour Inspector, mediation, or the Authority.

          Notes
          • Section 69AB: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Domestic Violence—Victims' Protection Act 2018 (2018 No 21).
          • Section 69AB(a): amended, on , by section 259(1) of the Family Violence Act 2018 (2018 No 46).
          • Section 69AB(c): amended, on , by section 259(1) of the Family Violence Act 2018 (2018 No 46).