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Employment Relations (Allowing Higher Earners to Contract Out of Personal Grievance Provisions) Amendment Bill (Consistent) [2017] NZBORARp 1 (25 January 2017)
Last Updated: 5 January 2019
25 January 2017
Hon Christopher Finlayson QC, Attorney-General
LEGAL ADVICE
LPA 01 01 21
Consistency with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990: Employment
Relations (Allowing Higher Earners to Contract Out of Personal
Grievance
Provisions) Amendment Bill
- We
have considered whether the Employment Relations (Allowing Higher Earners to
Contract Out of Personal Grievance Provisions) Amendment
Bill (‘the
Bill’), a member’s Bill in the name of Scott Simpson MP, is
consistent with the rights and freedoms
affirmed in the New Zealand Bill of
Rights Act 1990 (‘the Bill of Rights Act’).
- The
Bill amends the Employment Relations Act 2000 (‘the principal Act’).
It provides that employees with an annual gross
salary over $150,000 can
contract out of the personal grievance provisions contained in the principal
Act. If that option is taken,
whatever the employee and employer have agreed to
concerning the application of personal grievance provisions in their employment
contract stands provided specified conditions are met.
- We
have concluded that the Bill appears to be consistent with the rights and
freedoms affirmed in the Bill of Rights Act.
Jeff Orr
Chief Legal Counsel Office of Legal Counsel
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