10329 (2025). Teanau Tuiono to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety

Written Question
Published date: 25 Mar 2025
10329 (2025). Teanau Tuiono to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety: What advice, reports or information, if any, broken down by date and title, has the Minister or their office received about changes to the personal grievance settings?
Hon Brooke van Velden: Advice was provided in the following documents for introducing a high income threshold for unjustified dismissal personal grievances: • Initial advice on setting a high-income threshold for personal grievances (13 May 2024) • Personal grievances: A threshold for unjustified dismissals (29 August 2024) • Personal grievances: confirming the contracting-in provision for the income threshold (from the Weekly Report for the period from 13 September 2024 – 19 September 2024) • Personal grievances: Threshold second order policy issues (8 October 2024) • Regulatory Impact Statement: Introducing an income threshold for unjustified dismissal (12 November 2024) • Advice on the transitional provision for the personal grievance income threshold (15 January 2024) Advice was provided in the following documents for changes to remedy settings: • Initial advice on eligibility to remedies for personal grievances (21 June 2024) • Further advice on eligibility for remedies for personal grievances (5 September 2024) • Decisions for eligibility for remedies for personal grievances (18 September 2024) • Regulatory Impact Statement: Strengthening consideration and accountability for the employee's behaviour in personal grievance process (7 November 2024) • Changes to personal grievance remedy settings – supplementary decision required (from the Weekly Report for the period from 24 January 2025 – 30 January 2025)