Restrictions OK
Jurisdiction Employment Relations Authority - Wellington
Reference No WA 18/04
Hearing date 18 Dec 2003
Determination date 17 February 2004
Member P R Stapp
Representation G Clarke ; AA Couch
Location Wellington
Parties Postal Workers Union v New Zealand Post
Summary DISPUTE - Compliance order - Applicant sought compliance order - Measurement and redrawing of postal delivery rounds - Alleged some delivery rounds changed so that travel time after completion of delivery excluded from calculation of round size - Issue that not paid for travel time if not included in size of round - Collective agreement provided for determining postal delivery round sizes - Whether consultation - No evidence that respondent breached terms and conditions of collective agreement - Resizing included consultation - Change did result in more work to affected rounds but amount of work needed to be slightly increased to bring size of rounds back up to rostered hours - Respondent entitled to recast rounds to bring up to rostered hours so long as consistent with collective agreement - Total working time remained within rostered hours - Compliance order declined - Application dismissed - Postal delivery workers
Result Application dismissed ; Costs reserved
Number of Pages 12
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