Open AccessTracking Mediator Behaviour: An Initial Investigation
Author(s) -
Virginia Thorley
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
new zealand journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0110-0637
DOI - 10.26686/nzjir.v19i1.3342
Subject(s) - mediation , negotiation , interpretation (philosophy) , industrial relations , wage , dispute resolution , tribunal , arrears , political science , law and economics , business , law , economics , finance , debt , computer science , programming language
Mediation is perhaps the most often used and least easily understood dispute resolutionprocedure in the field of industrial relations. It has played a particularly prominent role in industrial relations in New Zealand, having a long history at the centfe of both wage negotiation or interest disputes, and personal and contractual rights disputes. It retains a central role in the resolution of personal grievances, contract interpretation disputes, wage arrears and other disputes of rights in the Employment Tribunal under the Employment Contracts Act 1991.