New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 309

309 Absence from duty not to affect employment rights

1 No person who is absent from his or her usual employment as a result of carrying out any instructions or directions under section 305 shall be liable to dismissal from his or her employment by reason only of such absence, whether or not the employer has consented to such absence.

2 Nothing in this section shall impose on the employer of any person any obligation to pay any remuneration in respect of any period of absence in carrying out any instructions or directions under section 305 .

Note: 1983 No 46 s 74