Protections, Loopholes and the employment court

Analysis of the Employment Court's recent approaches to statutory workplace protections in the Equal Pay Act 1972, the Minimum Wage Act 1983, the Wages Protection Act 1983 and Part 6A, Employment Relations Act 2000 suggests that it currently lacks a consistent approach to the issue of protectio...

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Published inNew Zealand journal of employment relations Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 13 - 23
Main Author Robson, Susan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.04.2017
Subjects
Actions and defenses
Employees
Employment Relations Act 2000 (New Zealand)
Equal pay for equal work
Labor laws and legislation
Law and legislation
Minimum wage
Pacific Flight Catering v LSG Sky Chefs (case)
Payroll deductions
Social aspects
Strategy
Wages
New Zealand
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Summary:Analysis of the Employment Court's recent approaches to statutory workplace protections in the Equal Pay Act 1972, the Minimum Wage Act 1983, the Wages Protection Act 1983 and Part 6A, Employment Relations Act 2000 suggests that it currently lacks a consistent approach to the issue of protection. The Court appears to be overly vulnerable to the way that proceedings are presented and argued, and it fails to consistently privilege purposive over other approaches to the interpretation of statutory protections.
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New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2017: 13-23
Archived by the National Library of New Zealand
Includes notes
Contents page records publication date as 2016
ISSN:1176-4716
1179-2965