New Zealand Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

FAIR PAY AGREEMENTS ACT 2022 - SECT 176

176 Relationship between fair pay agreements and collective agreements

1 Entering into, or bargaining for, a collective agreement in accordance with the collective bargaining provisions of the Employment Relations Act 2000 does not prevent the initiation of bargaining, or bargaining, for a proposed agreement or a proposed variation that would apply to a party to the collective agreement.

2 The existence of bargaining for a proposed agreement or a proposed variation, or the existence of a fair pay agreement, in relation to which an employer is a covered employer, is not a genuine reason for failing to conclude collective bargaining between the employer and a union representing the employer’s employees for the purposes of section 33 of the Employment Relations Act 2000 .