{"title":"Managerial Unionism and the Law in New Zealand","authors":"K. Binnie, David F. Smith","doi":"10.26686/nzjir.v9i2.3562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/nzjir.v9i2.3562","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the issue of trade unionism amongst the fastest growing occupational group in New Zealand, which is also the least unionised, managers and administrators. Despite facing similar threats to employment security and changes to working conditions as other wage and salary earners, most managers and administrators do not have the benefits of a protective organisation to bargain on their behalf. The paper examines forms of collective representation for managers, but particularly incorporation and registration as a trade union. Problems associated with attempts to register managerial unions are discussed, and the particular case of APEX is examined. The paper concludes with some suggestions for changes to the law to ease the plight of those managers who wish to unionise, and summarises the current avenues available for collective representation.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"49 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":"122837678","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 new jurisdiction: the impact of the Labour Relations Act","authors":"J. Hughes","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V13I3.3645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V13I3.3645","url":null,"abstract":"The new jurisdiction conferred on the Labour Court by Part IX of the Labour Relations Act 1987 has a number of facets. First, there has been a widening of the categories of worker who may use the procedure, not only under the 1987 Act but also by virtue of the State Sector Act 1988. Secondly, there have been substantial changes to the way in which the personal grievance procedure operates. Thirdly, the grounds upon which a personal grievance claim may now be brought have been expanded. Fourthly, the available remedies, whilst not substantially changed, have been \"tidied up\". The treatment of these changes in this paper will be selective. The procedural changes have been excellently covered in Mike Dawson's indispensable guide Handling Personal Grievances Under the Labour Relations Act 1987 (Canterbury Trade Unions Research and Training Group/UEA, 1988). I would like to take the opportunity to highlight what seem to me to be some of the more far-reaching changes and, in the course of the paper, touch only lightly on the distinctly \"procedural\" aspects of the changes since the Labour Relations Act 1987 carne into force. Surprisingly few decisions so far have turned on the new provisions. Most retread the familiar ground of unjustifiable dismissal.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"23 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":"123958361","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":"Unions and Industrial Relations in Papua New Guinea","authors":"Michael Hess, J. Gissua","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V17I1.3311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V17I1.3311","url":null,"abstract":"When Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975, it inherited the Australian system of compulsory conciliation and arbitration from its former colonial rulers. This system with the cenrnal reality it ascribes to trade unions as the industrial representatives of workers has been under considerable anack in both Australia and New Zealand in recent years. In Papua New Guinea too its effectiveness has not gone unquestioned. This paper seeks first to provide some background to understanding the evolution of Papua New Guinea's industrial relations system and then looks in detail at some recent examples of its operation.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"4 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":"124232377","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":"Industrial relations legislation in 1985","authors":"W. Hodge","doi":"10.26686/nzjir.v10i3.3392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/nzjir.v10i3.3392","url":null,"abstract":"This note outlines and discusses the major changes in industrial legislation to take place in New Zealand during 1985.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"44 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":"125909901","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":"Personal Grievances Arising from Redundancy: Life after Hale and the Employment Contracts Act 1991","authors":"J. Ferguson","doi":"10.26686/nzjir.v17i3.3336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/nzjir.v17i3.3336","url":null,"abstract":"Can an employer reorganise the workplace and make employees redundant without any obligations other than those specifically agreed upon? Redundancy has received only limited statutory attention in New Zealand and legal rights and expectations have not always been clear. The ju4gments of the Labour Court and the Court of Appeal in regard to the Hale case highlighted the conflicting considerations operative in the area and provided a useful guide to the current position. This article examines the role of the concept in personal grievances and offers comments on the significance of the Hale case and its implications for the future, taking account of the new Employment Contracts Act 1991 regime.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"51 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":"130267655","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":"REVIEW ARTICLE: Idustrial Relations and the Capitalist Labour Process","authors":"J. Brocklesby","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V8I3.3550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V8I3.3550","url":null,"abstract":"During the last 2 decades, there has developed a considerable literature which calls into question many of the taken for granted assumptions of leading scholars. Significantly, the field of industrial relations has not been immune to these investigations, and arguably the most damaging indictments have been served by Hyman (1978), Fox (1973), and Goldthorpe (1974), against the advocates of pluralism, and Wood et al, (1975) against systems theorists. These authors have exposed many of the functionalist assumptions implicit in the mainstream paradigm of industrial relations.","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":"129776247","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":"A Framework for analysing worker participation in management","authors":"R. J. Stephens","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V7I1.3506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V7I1.3506","url":null,"abstract":"The levels of managerial decision-making at which worker participation occurs, the range of subject-matter covered, the degree of power-sharing, and the means by which worker participation is implemented, are influenced by the wider social, economic and political environment.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"7 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":"129415938","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":"Full Circle: Australian Wage Determination 1982-1984","authors":"D. Plowman","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V9I2.3564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V9I2.3564","url":null,"abstract":"This article, the third by the author for this journal, follows trends in Australia wage fixing from December 1981 to mid-1984. It deals particulary with the effects of the Hawke Labour Government's economic policies as they have affected wage determination and attempts to assess possible future developments.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"20 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":"128430305","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":"Women in the Workforce","authors":"Ruth Butterworth","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V3I1.3427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V3I1.3427","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I set out to answer three questions 1 Where are women, in the main, located in the workforce? 2. What are the salient characteristics of this segment of the workforce? 3. What special problems face the trade union movement in dealing with the situation of women workers?","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"11 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":"130192486","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":"Personal Grievance Mediation in the Employment Tribunal","authors":"R. Gardiner","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V18I3.3865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V18I3.3865","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents some personal views I have concerning the mediation of personal grievances in the Employment Tribunal, but I suggest that what I have to say has equal relevance to mediation conducted by independent mediators in terms of alternative procedures contemplated by the Employment Contracts Act.","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":"128680184","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}