NZ Dairy Workers Union Inc v New Zealand Milk Products Ltd - [2004] 3 NZLR 652

Employment law — Employment agreements — Lawfulness of bargaining agent’s fee clause in collective agreement — Whether requirement for non-union members to pay money to union could amount to “practical compulsion” to join or remain member of union — Whether employees informed they could withdraw consent for deduction of fee — Whether provision for payment of lump sum upon termination of employment a penalty and therefore unenforceable — Wages Protection Act 1983, ss 4, 12 and 16.