Section 74 — Employment Relations Act 2000: Calculation of maximum number of days of employment relations education leave

74 Calculation of maximum number of days of employment relations education leave (1) The maximum number of days of employment relations education leave that a union is entitled to allocate in respect of an employer is based on the number of full-time equivalent eligible employees employed by the employer as at the 30th day before the specified date in a year, and is determined in accordance with the following table: Full-time equivalent eligible employees as at the 30th day before the specified date in a year Maximum number of days of employment relations education leave that union entitled to allocate 1-5 3 6-50 5 51-280 1 day for every 8 full-time equivalent eligible employees or part of that number 281 or more 35 days plus 5 days for every 100 full-time equivalent eligible employees or part of that number that exceeds 280 (2) For the purposes of calculating the number of full-time equivalent eligible employees employed by an employer,— (a) an eligible employee who normally works 30 hours or more during a week is to be counted as 1: (b) an eligible employee who normally works less than 30 hours during a week is to be counted as one-half. Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 December 2004, by section 33(1) Employment Relations Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 86) by inserting the words “ the 30th day before ” after the words “ by the employer as at ” . See section 73 of that Act for the transitional provisions. Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 December 2004, by section 33(2) Employment Relations Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 86) by inserting in the heading to the first column to the table the words “ the 30th day before ” after the words “ as at ” . See section 73 of that Act for the transitional provisions.