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Employment Relations Act 1999

24.Part I sets out procedures for the recognition of an independent trade union to conduct collective bargaining on behalf of a group of workers, referred to as the bargaining unit. It provides a method for agreeing the appropriate bargaining unit, whether the union should be recognised, and how collective bargaining should be conducted. The key steps in the recognition procedure are illustrated in Figure 1; similarly, the key steps in the process for establishing a method of collective bargaining are summarised in Figure 2.

Figure 1: Statutory recognition procedure

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