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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 Helpline
  2. the Employment Relations Authority
  3. a lawyer

Question 2 of 11

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

  1. 15
  2. 20
  3. 5

Question 3 of 11

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

  1. one
  2. two or more
  3. three or more

Question 4 of 11

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

  1. Department of Labour
  2. National Distribution Union
  3. Council of Trade Unions

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

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 reasons
  2. only after 15 working days of continuous strike
  3. whenever they like

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 Act
  2. the Gender Equity Act
  3. the Equal Pay Act

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 agreement
  2. employees on a collective agreement
  3. both of the above

Question 9 of 11

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

  1. individual
  2. both individual and collective
  3. collective

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 sold
  2. hours of work and pay
  3. employer and employee names, where the employee works, what work the employee is employed to do

Question 11 of 11

What do collective agreements not need?

  1. an explanation of who and what they cover
  2. how the agreement can be changed, and how and when it expires
  3. what work the employees will do and where
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