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Text equivalent: Workplace affairs – the ERA

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Question 1 of 11

Who can you ring to get free advice if you have questions about employment relations?

  1. the Department of Labour Helplinecorrect answer icon
  2. the Employment Relations Authorityincorrect answer icon
  3. a lawyerincorrect answer icon

Question 2 of 11

How many days annual leave are the full-time workers getting?

  1. 15incorrect answer icon
  2. 20correct answer icon
  3. 5incorrect answer icon

Question 3 of 11

How many people are required to form a collective employment agreement?

  1. oneincorrect answer icon
  2. two or morecorrect answer icon
  3. three or moreincorrect answer icon

Question 4 of 11

Which organisation’s website has the ‘Find Your Union’ tool?

  1. Department of Labourincorrect answer icon
  2. National Distribution Unionincorrect answer icon
  3. Council of Trade Unionscorrect answer icon

Question 5 of 11

Which statement is not true?

  1. Strikes and lockouts are lawful if they relate to bargaining for an expired collective agreement.incorrect answer icon
  2. Strikes and lockouts are lawful if they relate to bargaining for a current collective agreement.correct answer icon
  3. Strikes and lockouts are lawful if the parties had already begun bargaining at least 40 days previously.incorrect answer icon

Question 6 of 11

When can an employer employ new workers to do the work of striking or locked out workers?

  1. only for occupational health and safety reasonscorrect answer icon
  2. only after 15 working days of continuous strikeincorrect answer icon
  3. whenever they likeincorrect answer icon

Question 7 of 11

Which Act says you can’t pay men and women differently if they are doing the same job and have the same qualifications and experience?

  1. the Human Rights Actincorrect answer icon
  2. the Gender Equity Actincorrect answer icon
  3. the Equal Pay Actcorrect answer icon

Question 8 of 11

The ERA states that employees employed after 2 October 2000 must have a written employment agreement. To which employees does this apply?

  1. employees on an individual agreementincorrect answer icon
  2. employees on a collective agreementincorrect answer icon
  3. both of the abovecorrect answer icon

 

Question 9 of 11

Which type of employment agreement must explain the dispute resolution process?

  1. individualincorrect answer icon
  2. both individual and collectivecorrect answer icon
  3. collectiveincorrect answer icon

Question 10 of 11

What do individual employment agreements not need?

  1. an explanation of what will happen if the employee's work is contracted out or the business is soldcorrect answer icon
  2. hours of work and payincorrect answer icon
  3. employer and employee names, where the employee works, what work the employee is employed to doincorrect answer icon

Question 11 of 11

What do collective agreements not need?

  1. an explanation of who and what they coverincorrect answer icon
  2. how the agreement can be changed, and how and when it expiresincorrect answer icon
  3. what work the employees will do and wherecorrect answer icon
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