{"id":126,"date":"2021-04-04T20:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T08:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/60616b02175492001547ddca"},"modified":"2022-05-26T10:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:57:10","slug":"are-members-of-the-armed-forces-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/blog\/are-members-of-the-armed-forces-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Are members of the Armed Forces employees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The simple answer is <strong>no<\/strong>. Section 45(5) of the Defence Act 1990 provides that nothing in the Employment Relations Act 2000 applies to the conditions of service of members of Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>This means that a service person cannot raise a personal grievance, or use many of the other employment processes normally available to civilian employees. However, there are alternative ways that service people can resolve issues, including making a complaint or taking judicial review proceedings. This means that it is important you choose a lawyer who knows what options are available to you.<\/p>\n<p>Frontline Law can give you expert advice and support you through whatever process you choose, to give you the best chances of achieving the outcome that you want.<\/p>\n<p><em>Frontline Law is a team of talented lawyers, most of whom have previously served in the Armed Forces, New Zealand Police, and other uniformed organisations.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The first step in getting support is to talk with a lawyer from Frontline Law about your situation and see what options we can offer you. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontlinelaw.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><u>Contact Frontline Law<\/u><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0for a free initial consultation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The simple answer is no. Section 45(5) of the Defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}