While right-wing libertarians won most battles in the 1990-1991 Employment Contracts Act reforms they lost the one that was perhaps most central to their version of labour law – employment at will. Not only did they lose that battle, they saw the right to take a personal grievance significantly
A brief update on my last post. It has been pointed out to me that there was a second case where the Authority fixed a collective agreement: the details are reported in Reunited Employees Association Incorporated v Nelmac Limited [2021] NZERA 530 which was upheld in Reunited Employees Association Incorporated
In my last post relating to the proposal for binding arbitration in the ongoing collective bargaining between Te Whata Ora and the ASMS I stated that ‘For completeness it should also be noted that the Employment Relations Authority does have limited powers to fix terms and conditions if there has
Last week the Minister of Health, Simeon Brown, wrote to both Te Whata Ora and the ASMS calling on the two parties to conclude their long-running dispute over a new collective agreement by agreeing to settle the dispute by binding arbitration – allowing a third party to decide the terms
In a submission to the Education and Workforce select committee representatives of Uber have not only asked that New Zealand workers be stripped of their rights but that this be done retrospectively. Such a submission is probably unique in New Zealand employment law, and very unusual generally. Even the Government’
Law, Labour and Life is a reincarnation of a blog I created several years ago to comment on a previous period of attacks on the legal rights and protections afforded to workers in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Political developments under the current government suggest that it might be timely to revive
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