Employment-Complaint about ERA Members.
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From: peter
Dear Brooke van Velden,
Can you please provide information regarding members of the Employment Relations Authority?
1. How many written complaints are received about members of the authority between
2018 to 2024.
2. How many complaints have been upheld?
If so, what is the result of those complaints?
3. What policies or processes are used to deal with complaints about members?
4. Have there been any written complaints about David Beck from the Christchurch
Authority.
5. If so, what is the result of those complaints?
Peter.
[email address]
From: Brooke van Velden (MIN)
Brooke van Velden
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From: Brooke van Velden (MIN)
Brooke van Velden
Dear Peter,
Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information Act request as follows:
Can you please provide information regarding members of the Employment Relations Authority?
1. How many written complaints are received about members of the authority between
2018 to 2024.
2. How many complaints have been upheld?
If so, what is the result of those complaints?
3. What policies or processes are used to deal with complaints about members?
4. Have there been any written complaints about David Beck from the Christchurch
Authority.
5. If so, what is the result of those complaints?
Minister van Velden is considering your request in accordance with the Act.
Ngâ mihi,
Office of Hon Brooke van Velden
Minister of Internal Affairs
Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety
MP for Tâmaki
Website: www.Beehive,govt.nz
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
Authorised by Hon Brooke van Velden, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
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Please note information about meetings related to the Ministers’ portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal or constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary would list: date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy considerations. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the release of your information in the meeting disclosure, please contact the sender. You can read more about the proactive release policy at https://www.dia.govt.nz/Proactive-Releas...
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Dear Peter,
Please see the attached letter from Minister van Velden in response to your OIA request.
Kind regards,
Cami Van Ausdall
Private Secretary (Executive Support) | Office of Hon Brooke van Velden
Minister of Internal Affairs
Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety
MP for Tâmaki
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
Authorised by Hon Brooke van Velden, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
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From: peter
Dear Brooke van Velden,
I am in receipt of your response. However, I hold the view that your reply has been incorrectly submitted.
Section 222 of the ERA states: Nothing in the Official Information Act 1982 applies to any information held by the Department or the Authority or the Court in relation to any proceedings brought before the Authority or the Court.
Section 222 is not a blanket cover to stop all requests for data or information collected about the ERA. Section 222 specifical relates to proceedings brought before the Authority or the Court.
We are requesting information about complaints about members of the ERA. We are not seeking information about any specific proceeding or applications. This request relates to members' performance and employees' data.
We request that you review your grounds for declining our requests. Again, we are not seeking any material information regarding any proceedings but data. Section 222 does not apply to this request.
Please review our request at 1,2,4 and 5.
In response to 3 of our requests, directing us to the Website for information on how to make a complaint is unhelpful and did not adequately respond to our request for policies. The Website is a process to "make a complaint" . This was not the nature of our request. We asked for the policies or processes that are used to deal with complaints about members.
To clarify our request, we re-state:
1. What are the internal policies relied on by any decision-maker or manager following a complaint
about a member?
2. Is there a code of conduct for members of the ERA. Is there any internal policies for conduct or
behaviour for members of the ERA.
3. What internal code of conduct or internal policy is relied on when investigating a complaint about a
member?
4. If a member is subjected to a complaint, what are the internal policies relied on to conduct any
inquiry?
Yours sincerely,
peter
Please note this is an automatically generated email.
Thank you for taking the time to contact Hon Brooke van Velden, MP for
Tāmaki, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Minister for Workplace Relations
and Safety.
While the Minister considers all correspondence to be important, and all
messages are carefully read and considered, it is not always possible to
provide a personal response. Where the Minister has portfolio
responsibility for the issues that you have raised, your correspondence
will be considered and responded to where appropriate.
* If you are a Tāmaki resident contacting the Minister about an issue,
then your email will be passed to the Minister’s local team
* If your message is for advice, or if you have copied you email to
another Minister and/or Member of Parliament with more appropriate
portfolio responsibilities, then your message will be noted
* If you have invited the Minister to an event, then a member of staff
may contact you for more information. Please note we endeavour to
process invitations within 10 working days
* If you have made a request for official information, then this will be
managed in accordance with the provisions of the Official Information
Act 1982
Office of Hon Brooke van Velden
Minister of Internal Affairs
Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety
MP for Tāmaki
Website: [1]www.Beehive,govt.nz
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
Authorised by Hon Brooke van Velden, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
Disclaimer: The information in this email (including attachments) is
confidential and may be legally privileged. If an addressing or
transmission error has misdirected this email, please notify the author by
replying to this email and destroy the message. If you are not the
intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying or distribution is
prohibited and may be unlawful.
Please note information about meetings related to the Ministers’
portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal or
constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary would list:
date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the
meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the
Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will
be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet
with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be
released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a
private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the
provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy
considerations. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for a
copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to
be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of
your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the
release of your information in the meeting disclosure, please contact the
sender. You can read more about the proactive release policy at
[2]https://www.dia.govt.nz/Proactive-Releas...
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From: Brooke van Velden (MIN)
Brooke van Velden
Dear Peter,
On behalf of Hon Brooke van Velden, thank you for your further email regarding your OIA request for the following information:
1. What are the internal policies relied on by any decision-maker or manager following a complaint
about a member?
2. Is there a code of conduct for members of the ERA. Is there any internal policies for conduct or
behaviour for members of the ERA.
3. What internal code of conduct or internal policy is relied on when investigating a complaint about a
member?
4. If a member is subjected to a complaint, what are the internal policies relied on to conduct any
inquiry?
The information you have requested is believed to be more closely connected to the functions of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Therefore, your request is being transferred to that department in accordance with section 14 (b)(ii) of the Act.
You can expect to hear from them directly in due course.
Kind regards,
Office of Hon Brooke van Velden
Minister of Internal Affairs
Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety
MP for Tāmaki
Website: www.Beehive,govt.nz
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
Authorised by Hon Brooke van Velden, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
Disclaimer: The information in this email (including attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this email, please notify the author by replying to this email and destroy the message. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited and may be unlawful.
Please note information about meetings related to the Ministers’ portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal or constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary would list: date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy considerations. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the release of your information in the meeting disclosure, please contact the sender. You can read more about the proactive release policy at https://www.dia.govt.nz/Proactive-Releas...
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From: Ministerial Services
Ref: 2324-2070
Kia ora Peter,
On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your request of 18 March 2024 sent to the Minister of
Workplace Relations and Safety requesting under the Official Information
Act 1982 (the Act), the following:
‘1. What are the internal policies relied on by any decision-maker or
manager following a complaint about a member?
2. Is there a code of conduct for members of the ERA. Is there any
internal policies for conduct or behaviour for members of the ERA.
3. What internal code of conduct or internal policy is relied on when
investigating a complaint about a member?
4. If a member is subjected to a complaint, what are the internal policies
relied on to conduct any inquiry?’
Your request has been transferred to the Ministry of Business, Innovation
and Employment from Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety on 21 March
2024 and is being processed in accordance with the Official Information
Act 1982.
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible, and no
later than 22 April 2024, being 20 working days after the day your request
was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
If you have any enquiries regarding your request feel free to contact us
via email [1][email address] or using the contact details below.
Ministerial Services Business Advisory
Communications, Design & Ministerial Services
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
15 Stout Street, Wellington, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140
[2]www.mbie.govt.nz
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From: TWSD Ministerial Services
Kia ora Peter
Your information request to the Minister Brooke van Velden on 18 March
2024 has been forwarded to Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
to respond.
In order that I can determine your eligibility to make a request under the
Official Information Act 1982 (section 12, copied below), please confirm
and provide evidence that you fall into one of the following categories:
(a) a New Zealand citizen; or
(b) a permanent resident of New Zealand; or
(c) a person who is in New Zealand;
Please provide a copy of your passport, or permanent visa, or evidence of
your New Zealand residential address. If you do not wish to provide this
information via the FYI website, you can email it to me directly at:
TWSDMinisterialServices(@)mbie(.)govt(.)nz
Please provide this information by 28 March 2024. If I do not hear from
you by this time, then your request will be closed and no further action
will be taken.
Extract from the Official Information Act 1984:
12 Requests
(1) Any person, being—
(a) a New Zealand citizen; or
(b) a permanent resident of New Zealand; or
(c) a person who is in New Zealand; or
(d) a body corporate which is incorporated in New Zealand; or
(e) a body corporate which is incorporated outside New Zealand but which
has a place of business in New Zealand,—
may request a department or Minister of the Crown or organisation to make
available to him or it any specified official information.
Ngā mihi nui,
Dongrui P
SENIOR MINISTERIAL SERVICES ADVISOR, MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
15 Stout Street, Wellington 6011 | PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140
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From: TWSD Ministerial Services
Kia ora Peter
I have not received any response from you and I am therefore not satisfied
that you are eligible to make a request under section 12 of the Official
Information Act 1982. As such, I will not be responding to your request.
If you believe that you are eligible to make a request under the Act, you
may submit another request.
Ngā mihi nui,
Dongrui P
SENIOR MINISTERIAL SERVICES ADVISOR, MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
15 Stout Street, Wellington 6011 | PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140
From: TWSD Ministerial Services
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2024 4:10 PM
To: [FOI #25858 email]
Subject: DOIA 2324-2070 [UNCLASSIFIED]
Kia ora Peter
Your information request to the Minister Brooke van Velden on 18 March
2024 has been forwarded to Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
to respond.
In order that I can determine your eligibility to make a request under the
Official Information Act 1982 (section 12, copied below), please confirm
and provide evidence that you fall into one of the following categories:
(a) a New Zealand citizen; or
(b) a permanent resident of New Zealand; or
(c) a person who is in New Zealand;
Please provide a copy of your passport, or permanent visa, or evidence of
your New Zealand residential address. If you do not wish to provide this
information via the FYI website, you can email it to me directly at:
TWSDMinisterialServices(@)mbie(.)govt(.)nz
Please provide this information by 28 March 2024. If I do not hear from
you by this time, then your request will be closed and no further action
will be taken.
Extract from the Official Information Act 1984:
12 Requests
(1) Any person, being—
(a) a New Zealand citizen; or
(b) a permanent resident of New Zealand; or
(c) a person who is in New Zealand; or
(d) a body corporate which is incorporated in New Zealand; or
(e) a body corporate which is incorporated outside New Zealand but which
has a place of business in New Zealand,—
may request a department or Minister of the Crown or organisation to make
available to him or it any specified official information.
Ngā mihi nui,
Dongrui P
SENIOR MINISTERIAL SERVICES ADVISOR, MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
15 Stout Street, Wellington 6011 | PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140
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