{"title":"The Labour Relations Act and changes to the structure of bargaining","authors":"Greg Wood","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V13I2.3638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V13I2.3638","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the impact of inflationary expectations and outcomes on the 1987-88 wage round, the first under the Labour Relations Act 1987. It argues that any trade-off between moderate wage settlements and the retention of the Mtional award system for at least another year has worked to the advantage of unions because of the sharp fall in inflation since September 1987. Since real wages have in general at least been mainlained under negotiations which basically took place within the national award system, the pressures for major structural changes to the bargaining system are correspondingly less than if real wages had, as expected, declined.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122754785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labour militancy and private contracting: public hospital ancillary services","authors":"J. Stubbs","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V16I3.3115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V16I3.3115","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to show that regional variations in the strength of labour force militancy can be an important factor in mediating the regional development of privatization. By taking the private contracting of New Zealand public hospital ancillary services as a specific case study, it is seen that, in some cases, labour militancy can lead to the elimination of private contracting. While acknowledging the need for further research on this issue, some tentative conclusions are drawn on the relevance of labour militancy to the privatization of public service provision in other social contexts.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121772864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Union policies and the structure of part-time employment: the case of registered nursing","authors":"S. Dixon","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V12I2.3606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V12I2.3606","url":null,"abstract":"This paper cosiders the impact of the New Zealand Nurses Association and the Public Service Association upon the development of part-tinze employment patterns in public hospital-based registered nursing. It argues that an understanding of the policies and negotiating strategies of unions and professional associations is required for a full explanation of part-time employment's uneren industrial and occupational distribution.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128047360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organisational Adjustment and the Labour Market in New Zealand","authors":"Richard A. Harris, B. Daldy","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V18I1.3842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V18I1.3842","url":null,"abstract":"Post-war New Zealand enjoyed exceptionally low unemployment rates as compared to other industrialised countries, especially after the boom years of the 1960s when unemployment rates rose in nearly all OECD countries. This can be explained by government policies regulating and protecting the economy from outside influences. Extensive use of high tariffs, import licensing and quotas meant that New Zealand had one of the highest levels of effective protection amongst OECD countries (OECD, 1990). The government also embarked on a \"think big\" campaign in addition to the active support given to a number of loss making government trading enterprises. The net result was that full employment was achieved through job creation and maintenance in those public and protected sectors shielded from foreign and domestic competition. The cost, however, was the reduced competitiveness of the export sector and \"the creation of an insular, inefficient, increasingly rigid, inflation-prone economy-which proved ill adapted to external shocks and to the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing world economy\" (OECD, 1990: 13). Since 1984, and the incoming Labour Government's radical change of strategy (i.e. commitment to free market policies), employment levels have fallen and consequently unemployment has risen.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133106825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reforming labour relations: what southern employers say","authors":"I. Mcandrew, Paul Hursthouse","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V16I1.3095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V16I1.3095","url":null,"abstract":"Broad based employer organizations have successfully advocated deregulation of New Zealand labour relations on the basis that employers have felt unduly restrained by predominantly national occupational awards and existing union structures and activities. This paper examines this premise through ·an interview survey of South Island employers. Little support is found for the contention that unions or the award system place significant restraints on smaller or medium sized firms that are the foundation of much New Zealand industry and employment, or that such employers have felt moved to demand the sort of labour relations reform now advocated by the central organization of employers.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114419052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occupational safety and Health: employers' perspective","authors":"D. Farlow","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V14I2.3785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V14I2.3785","url":null,"abstract":"In this discussion of the principles and objectives for proposed occupational health and safety legislation, I shall draw quite heavily on the public discussion paper put out in June 1988 by ACOSH, Occupational safety and health reform. The statements in that report remain true. Further, it is important to realise that the recognition of these problems provides the prime rationale behind the desire for reform.\u0000 The present problems as experienced by employers result at least as much from the fragmented and inconsistent administrative process as from the difficulties with the existing legislation. Thus, the driving force for reform is aimed at the administrative arrangements, while recognising that, in order for such changes to occur, significant legislative changes would be necessary. In addition, there exists the opportunity to tidy up the legislative mess that currently exists - but this must be done properly because a missed opportunity now will lose the momentum towards refonn and bad new legislation will be very difficulty to alter, giving us different problems for some time to come.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114744399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Employment Tribunal and the Employment Court","authors":"J. Hughes","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V16I2.3108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V16I2.3108","url":null,"abstract":"In the controversy that has accompanied the introduction of the Employment Contracts Act 1991, appreciation of the significant jurisdictional changes made by the legislation have understandably taken second place to the expression of wider concerns. The aim of this note is to examine aspects of the new Employment Tribunal and Employment Court within the overall framework of the 1991 Act. At the time of writing, the relevant Part of the 1991 Act has yet to come into force.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115133855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The men make it seem like a secret society...\" The struggle for control over 'direct inputting' of classified advertising in the New Zealand newspaper industry","authors":"R. Hill","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V14I3.3793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V14I3.3793","url":null,"abstract":"This paper draws on a detailed empirical study of the New Zealand newspaper industry undergoing technological transformation to illustrate why an analysis of the labour process which adopts the classic Marxist problematic, class-in-itself and class for-itself, is limited. Instead the paper uses a 'relational' analysis (see Elbaum et al., 1979; Stark, 1980; Hill and Novitz, 1985) to show that answers to questions about control in the workplace must be sought by -analysing gender as well as class relations, and the complex interaction between the two.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123485478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sexual harassment provisions of the Labour Relations Act","authors":"R. Boast","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V13I3.3646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V13I3.3646","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual harassment is not wholly self-contained, in that it can be relevant to other types of personal grievance. There is no reason why sexual harassment could not, for instance, amount to constructive dismissal. In this paper I will focus on the specific sexual harassment provisions of the 1987 Act","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123618332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disclosure of Financial Information - Are New Zealand Employees and Unions Missing Out?","authors":"Judy Brown","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V21I3.2270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V21I3.2270","url":null,"abstract":"New Zealand policymakers have to date paid scant attention to the disclosure of financial information to employees and unions. However, there are signs this could change. Current trends under the Employment Contracts Act towards enterprise and productivity bargaining may well see access to financial information emerge as a domain of increasing interest and significance. The Labour Party's policies for industrial relations reform incorporate proposals for a good faith bargaining requirement, including a statutory duty to supply relevant information. Should any future government contemplate action on industrial democracy, this would also have implications for disclosure. This paper examines existing legislative requirements in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. It is suggested that these provide a useful starting point for those interested in pursuing some New Zealand disclosure iniliatives and that so1ne valuable lessons can be drawn from overseas experiences.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114967341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}