Section 58 — Employment Relations Act 2000: Employee who resigns as member of union but does not resign as employee

58 Employee who resigns as member of union but does not resign as employee (1) A member of a union who is bound by a collective agreement and who resigns as a member of the union but does not resign from his or her employment, may not be subject to any other bargaining for a collective agreement or bound by any other collective agreement until the 60th day before the expiry date of the collective agreement binding on the member before resigning as a member of the union. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) , the expiry date of a collective agreement is determined under section 52(3) without taking section 53 into account.