New Section 27BF of the ERA 1996 places a duty on employers to ensure workers who have the potential to qualify for a guaranteed hours offer have access to, and continue to have access to, certain information about their rights (to be specified in regulations).
	Subsection (1) provides that an employer must take reasonable steps during the ‘initial information period’ to ensure that the worker who may be entitled to the right to guaranteed hours in a reference period is aware of information about the right. The information in question will be specified in regulations.
	Subsection (2) provides that an employer subject to the duty outlined in subsection (1) must take reasonable steps to ensure that the worker continues to have access to the specified information after the initial information period and at all times, where the worker is employed by the employer and it is reasonable to consider that the worker might become a qualifying worker entitled to a guaranteed hours offer.
	Subsections (3) defines the ‘initial information period’ as two weeks from either the day that the provisions come into force if a worker is already employed on that date, or the first day on which the worker is employed after the day the provisions come into force.
	Subsection (4) states that where under subsection (3) it was not reasonable to consider at that time that the worker might become a qualifying worker in respect of a reference period, then the initial information period should mean two weeks from the date when it becomes reasonable to consider that the worker might become a qualifying worker.
Part 1: Employment Rights Zero hours workers, etc New Section 27BF