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	Statutory Functions and Responsibilities of the Department of Labour

	

	A General functions and responsibilities concerning the labour force and employment

	

	1 Promoting and maintaining full employment, training, safe and healthy working conditions, good relationships between employers and workers, and the proper fulfilment by employers, workers and other persons of obligations placed upon them by awards and agreements and by the acts, regulations and orders administered by the department (Labour Department Act 1954)

	

	2 Providing a complete employment service to assist employers and employees (ibid)

	

	3 Collecting and publishing information related to employment and unemployment, wages and other relevant matters (ibid)

	

	4 Making surveys and forecasts of classes of employment, required or available, and doing all things deemed necessary or expedient for the purposes of placing suitable and qualified persons in those positions (ibid)

	

	5 Conducting research into social and industrial relations matters affecting the labour force (ibid)

	

	B Functions relating to wages and awards

	

	1 Administering the provisions for the promoting of stability in rates or remuneration and other conditions of employment (Remuneration Act 1979)

	

	2 Providing for a minimum wage, payable to adult workers in industry and private enterprise (Minimum Wage Act 1945)

	

	3 Investigating wage complaints, and inspecting wage books and accommodation for specified classes of agricultural workers (Agricultural Workers Act 1977)

	

	4 Ensuring the payment of wages when due to workers (with certain exceptions) in money and the prevention of wrongful deductions from wages (Wages Protection Act 1964)

	

	C Functions relating to industrial relations

	

	1 Enforcing the provisions and conditions of awards and agreements etc. and the recovery of wages (Industrial Relations Act 1973)

	

	2 Attending to exemptions from union membership, the registration of industrial unions and associations of workers and employers; if necessary, arranging secret ballots to be conducted for employers directly concerned in lockouts and for workers directly concerned in a strike; arranging for the Arbitration Court to hold an inquiry into an election in respect of an office in a union or association (Industrial Relations Act 1973)

	

	D Functions relating to safety and welfare

	

	1 Inspecting bush undertakings and the plant therein, for the safety and protection of all persons employed (Bush Workers Act 1945)

	

	2 Promoting safety and the prevention of accidents on construction work (Construction Act 1959)

	

	3 Administering provisions for the safety, health and workers employed in factories (Factories Act 1946)

	

	4 Administering provisions for the safety, health and welfare of people handling or having dealings with machinery in an industrial context (Machinery Act 1950)

	

	5 Administering the provisions for the safety, health and welfare of workers employed in shops (Shops and Offices Act 1955)

	

	6 Administering provisions for the safety, health and welfare of workers employed on farms (Agricultural Workers Act 1977)

	

	7 Regulating the trading hours of retail shops (Shop Trading Hours Act 1977)

	

	8 Enforcing prohibition of the importation, manufacture and sale of matches made from white phosphorous (Phosphorous Matches Act 1910)

	

	9 Inspecting accommodation and amenities provided by employers for shearers (Shearers Act 1962)

	

	10 Establishing, maintaining and operating hostels and other residential or boarding establishments for workers (Labour Department Act 1954)

	

	11 Administering provisions controlling the packing, handling, carriage, storage and use of certain dangerous goods and hazardous substances, being more particularly the functions of

	

	(a) Inspecting equipment and installations used for the storage or carriage of dangerous substances (Dangerous Goods Act 1974)

	

	(b) Licensing premises for the storage and use of dangerous goods (ibid)

	

	c) Prescribing the manner and the quantities in which dangerous goods are to be transported (ibid)

	

	(d) Regulating the containers in which dangerous goods may be packed (ibid)

	

	(e) Prescribing requirements for the proper labelling of dangerous goods (ibid)

	

	(f) Classifying explosives and regulating their import, manufacture and sale (Explosives Act 1957)

	

	(g) Granting permits for importing explosives for experimental purposes (ibid)

	

	(h) Granting permits for importing fireworks (ibid)

	

	(i) Prescribing detailed conditions and granting licences for the manufacture of explosives (ibid)

	

	(j) Granting licences to store or sell explosives (ibid)

	

	E Functions relating to the provision of holidays

	

	1 Administering the provisions for the granting of paid annual holiday to workers and for the maintaining of holiday records (Annual Holidays Act 1944)

	

	2 Administering the transfer to Monday or Tuesday of any special conditions of employment applying to Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day and the 2nd of January where such holidays fall on the weekend; the transfer to Monday or such conditions applying to Anniversary Day when it falls on any other day than Monday and the observance of Labour Day as a public holiday (Public Holidays Act 1955)

	

	F Functions relating to discrimination

	

	1 Removing and preventing discrimination, based on the sex of employees, in the rate of remuneration of males and females in paid employment, and for incidental matters (Equal Pay Act 1972)

	

	G Functions relating to training

	

	1 Promoting technician training schemes organised by Technician Training Councils (Technicians Training Act 1967)

	

	2 Providing an industrial training service for industry (Labour Department Act 1954)

	

	3 Promoting education and training for apprentices in industry and enforcing conditions of employment for apprentices employed in industry

	(Apprentices Act 1948)

	

	4 Administering provisions authorising the imposition of levies on occupiers of factories for the purpose of providing funds to enable industrial training boards established pursuant to section 15A of the Vocational Training Council Act 1968 to exercise their functions (Industrial Training Levies Act 1978)

	

	H Functions relating to immigration

	

	1 Administering the provisions for licensing offices whose business is to obtain employees (manual workers) for employers and employment for those seeking work (Employment Agents Act 1908)

	

	I Functions relating to immigration

	

	1 Deciding who may or may not immigrate to New Zealand (Immigration Act 1964)

	

	2 Supervising all aspects of temporary entry to New Zealand whether as tourists, visitors, students, temporary workers or trainees (ibid)

	

	3 Enforcing departure from New Zealand of persons unlawfully in the country, or who are ordered or recommended by the Courts or Minister to be deported (ibid)

	

	4 Administering appeal provisions available to prospective deportees (ibid)

	

	J Protecting volunteers performing military service and their employees

	

	Determining applications from employers for postponement of an employee's protected service or training in the armed forces; and taking court action for compensation on behalf of volunteers whose employment has been terminated without their consent, because of their volunteering for or performing any protected voluntary service or training (Volunteers Employment Protection Act 1973)

	

	K Examining weights and measures

	

	Controlling and periodically inspecting, weighing and measuring appliances used for trade; examining any weighed or measured goods kept of exposed for sale (Weights and Measures Act 1925)

	

	L Functions relating to workers' compensation

	

	Administering the compensation provisions for workers injured by accident occurring prior to 1 April 1974 (Workers Compensation Act 1956).

	Machinery of Government Change:

	In July 2012 the Department of Labour was merged into the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
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