The Employment Relations Authority has rejected a claim
from a school teacher that the School Board of Trustees breached a confidential
mediated settlement agreement by making a mandatory report to the Education
Council (now the Teaching Council).
The ERA held that the requirement to report to the
Education Council could not be overridden by the agreement to keep the
settlement agreement confidential because confidentiality only went so far as
the law allows. A mandatory reporting requirement is a legal requirement and a
failure to report would be an offence.
Therefore the Board was required to make a report to the Education
Council and was not in breach of the agreement of confidentiality.
Alan
Knowsley
Employment
Lawyer Wellington
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