From collectivism to individualism in New Zealand employment relations
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From collectivism to individualism in New Zealand employment relations Erling Rasmussen and Felicity Lamm The University of Auckland The shift from collectivism to individualism in New Zealand employment relations has been rapid and triggered profound employment relationship changes. This paper overviews the growth in individual employee rights prompted by public policy changes. In particular, the paper focuses on the paradoxical results of public policy changes: so-called deregulation facilitated increased regulation in the 1990s and the recent support for collectivism in the Employment Relations Act 2000 has resulted, so far, in a decrease in the coverage of collective employment agreements. The rise in individual employee rights appears to have embedded a culture of workplace bargaining and individual employment agreements in New Zealand.
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