4.1   Occupational Choice, Recruitment and Training
4.2   Work Organisation, Job Design, Job Satisfaction
4.3   Occupational Health and Safety / Industrial Accidents
4.4   Technology / Technological Change
4.5   Industrial Democracy / Worker Participation
4.6   Employment / Unemployment

[No articles in Index B fall within this category]

38. Boxall, Peter
Models of Employment and Labour Productivity in New Zealand: An Interpretation of Change Since the Employment Contracts Act, (1997) 22(1): 22-36.
Reviews contemporary changes in models of employment and labour productivity, examining their impact on the way New Zealanders are employed.
Related section: [ 7.3 ]


39. Ferguson, Judith
Casual Employment Contracts: Continuing Confusion when Protection and Free Market Clash, (1997) 22(2): 123-142.
Argues that the courts have largely overcome employer use of the casual employment label to subvert ongoing employment obligations, and that such problems have emanated from the philosophy behind the Employment Contracts Act.
Related section: [ 7.3 ]


40. Harbridge, Raymond
New Zealand's Collective Employment Contracts: Update November 1992, (1993) 18(1): 113-124.
Outlines data relating to collective employment contracts. The type of industry, employee numbers, contract structure, wage changes, and working time arrangements are all examined.
Related sections: [ 1.1, 1.3 ]


41. Harris, Richard & Daldy, Bridget
Organisational Adjustment and the Labour Market in New Zealand, (1993) 18(1): 58-83.
Examines the pressures that lead to restructuring at the organisational level, presents a model of reorganisation, and assesses the impact of organisational adjustment on the workforce.
Related section: [ 1.1 ]


42. Pringle, Alistair
The Pursuit of Flexibility in the New Zealand Supermarket: The Employment Contracts Act, Continuities and Discontinuities, (1993) 18(3): 306-325.
Argues the existence of a significant relationship between an industry's business environment and the industrial relations practices its constituent employers adopt. Focus is on the retail food sector.
Related sections: [ 4.2, 8.1 ]


43. Thomas, Cordelia
Drug Testing in the Workplace, (1997) 22(2): 159-169.
Outlines the difficulties involved in workplace drug testing and relevant New Zealand legislation covering the issue.
Related section: [ 4.2 ]


[See also articles numbered: 52, 54, 81, 94, 99, 101]

44. Duncan, Grant & Nimmo, John
Accident Compensation and Labour Relations: The Impact of Recent Reforms, (1993) 18(3): 288-305.
Examines the history of the ACC scheme, current reforms in the area, and the implications of those reforms for the future of ACC.
Related section: [ 7.3 ]


45. Kiely, Peter
The Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992: An Update and Developments, (1997) 22(2): 189-207.
Assesses the impact of the Health and Safety in Employment Act four years after its enactment, noting an increase in prosecutions and harsher penalties being imposed by the judicial system.
Related section: [ 7.3 ]


46. Kiely, Peter & Langton, Stephen
The Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 - An Overview, (1994) 19(2): 195-211.
A summary of the legislative regime brought about by the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.
Related section: [ 7.3 ]


47. Wilson, Ross
Return to Work - The New Zealand Experience Under the Accident Compensation Scheme, (1996) 21(2): 171-177.
Comments on employee return to work following injury and offers suggestions for improvement of ACC provisions.
Related section: [ 7.3 ]


48. Wilson, Ross
ACC 1997: A Fairer Scheme or a Breach of the Social Contract?, (1997/1998) 22(3)/(23(1): 301-310.
Reviews developments in the ACC legislative environment, calling for a management style which more strongly advances the interests of workers.
Related section: [ 7.3 ]


[See also article numbered: 77]

[No articles in Index B fall within this category]

[No articles in Index B fall within this category]

49. Grantham, Lori
Toward a Right to Redundancy Compensation, (1996) 21(2): 157-170.
Discusses the need for extra-contractual rights to redundancy compensation in terms of justice for workers.


50. Harbridge, Raymond & Kiely, Peter
Redundancy: Trends in Compensation, (1995) 20(3):302-312.
A review of data on redundancy compensation, noting a growing level of specific contractual provisions concerning redundancy situations.

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B.5. Wages