New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Functions of Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner

• The Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner has the following functions:

  • (a) to lead discussions of the Commission about equal employment opportunities (including pay equity):

  • (b) to provide advice and leadership on equal employment opportunities arising in the course of activities undertaken in the performance of the Commission's functions, both when engaging in those activities and otherwise when consulted:

  • (c) to evaluate, through the use of benchmarks developed by the Commissioner, the role that legislation, guidelines, and voluntary codes of practice play in facilitating and promoting best practice in equal employment opportunities:

  • (d) to lead development of guidelines and voluntary codes of practice to facilitate and promote best practice in equal employment opportunities (including codes that identify related rights and obligations in legislation), in accordance with section 5(2)(e):

  • (e) to monitor and analyse progress in improving equal employment opportunities in New Zealand, and to report to the Minister on the results of that monitoring and analysis:

  • (f) to liaise with, and complement the work of, any trust or body that has as 1 of its purposes the promotion of equal employment opportunities (including pay equity):

  • (g) to ensure, acting jointly with the Chief Commissioner, that activities undertaken in the performance of the Commission's functions in matters of equal employment opportunities are consistent with the strategic direction and other determinations of the Commission under section 7:

  • (h) any other functions, powers, or duties conferred or imposed on him or her by or under this Act or any other enactment.

  Section 17 was substituted, as from 1 July 2002, by section 5 Human Rights Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 96). See section 2(2) of that Act.