Open AccessThe Employment Contracts Act and Work Stoppages
Author(s) -
Jon Henning
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
new zealand journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0110-0637
DOI - 10.26686/nzjir.v20i1.3264
Subject(s) - autocracy , industrial relations , constructive , industrial action , work (physics) , government (linguistics) , action (physics) , style (visual arts) , labour economics , business , economics , political science , market economy , law , politics , history , democracy , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , physics , process (computing) , quantum mechanics , computer science , engineering , operating system , archaeology
A number of important changes in New Zealand's industrial relations have been credited to the effect of the Employment Contracts Act. Among them has been a decline in the level of industrial action, or as Bill Birch has put it, "a dramatic turn-around from the industrial conflict of the past" This particular change has been attributed by the Government to the establishment of increased and more constructive communication between employers and employees) no longer impeded by the autocratic and unwarranted interference of old style untontsts.