The Department of Labour is conducting a review of Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act 2000 (Part 6A) Continuity of employment if employees’ work affected by restructuring.

The review consists of two separate parts. 

Part One is required by law and will consider whether the operation of Part 6A has met its objectives, and if not, whether any amendments to Part 6A are necessary or desirable to meet those objectives.

Part Two involves additional consideration of subpart 1 of Part 6A which provides for special protections for specified groups of employees listed in Schedule 1A of the Employment Relations Act 2000.  This component of the review will consider the relevance and desirability of the policy of providing special protections for a defined set of workers.

The final report of the review will help to enable well-informed decisions on how to improve Part 6A’s objectives and operations. See the Terms of Reference for the review.

To inform the review we are seeking your comments on this legislation, including any experiences or concerns you have with its implementation. The discussion paper is designed to be a catalyst for these discussions about the implementation of Part 6A and to elicit submissions on your views.

You can read the discussion paper here or download a pdf version.

Making Submissions

Submissions close on 15 March 2010.

To make a submission, please respond to the questions outlined in the discussion document and contained in the review response form.

Then email your submission to ERconsultation@dol.govt.nz or post it to:

Review of Part 6A
Workplace Policy Group
Department of Labour
PO Box 3705
Wellington

Email submissions are encouraged as this greatly enhances our analysis process.

A document providing an overview of submissions will be posted on the Department of Labour website with details of how the government intends to proceed with the review.

Please note that any submissions that you make may be the subject of a request under the Official Information Act 1982. To assist the Department of Labour with the processing of any such requests, please indicate at the beginning of your submission whether or not you would like its contents made a matter of public record.

Downloads

Part 6A Review Discussion Document [pdf 32 pages, 167kB]

Part 6A Review Response Form [rtf 6 pages, 180kB

Part 6A Review Terms of Reference [pdf 6 pages, 35kB]