New Zealand Department of Labour

This report presents key findings from recent Department of Labour research on employment relationship problems (ERPs), and the processes for resolving them.

The research included surveys of the public and private sectors, and qualitative case studies of individual ERPs.

All publications in subject category: Employment policy / active labour market policy

     · A report card on the New Zealand labour market
     · An analysis of teenage employment by firms: 1999/00 – 2006/07
     · Displacement Effects of Active Labour Market Policy
     · Equality: Outcomes or Opportunities? A Review of the Literature
     · Evidence to date on the working and effectiveness of ALMPs in New Zealand
     · Inventory of Labour Market Measures
     · Keeping Work Safe Enforcement Policy
     · Parental Leave And Carers Leave: International Provision And Research
     · Parental Leave in New Zealand 2005/2006 Evaluation
     · Plan of Action to Prevent People Trafficking
     · Strategies to Return Injured Workers to Sustainable Earnings - An International Literature Review
     · Successful benefit-to-work transitions: The longer-term employment outcomes of people who move from a working-age benefit to employment
     · The impact of employment experiences and benefit-spell duration on benefit-to-work transitions
     · The impact of employment policy interventions
     · The impact of firm closure on workers’ future labour market outcomes
     · Who hires older workers? A first look at industry variations in the recruitment of mature workers
     · Work Capacity Assessment Trial, Phase One results, evaluation report
     · Work patterns after paid parental leave
     · Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market

All publications in subject category: Employment relations / industrial relations

     · An ''unlucky generation'' ? The wages of supermarket workers post-ECA
     · Current Trends, Process and Practice in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Review of The Literature
     · Evaluation of the Short-Term Impacts of the Employment Relations Act 2000
     · Parental Leave And Carers Leave: International Provision And Research
     · Parental Leave in New Zealand 2005/2006 Evaluation
     · Report of the Public Advisory Group on Restructuring and Redundancy
     · Reporting on Workplace Health and Safety and Employment Relations: a stock-take of current practice
     · Should New Zealand have a WIRS?
     · The business case for firm-level work-life balance policies: a review of the literature
     · The Economic Effects of Industrial Relations Systems: A Literature Review
     · The Effect of the Employment Relations Act 2000 on Collective Bargaining
     · Work-life balance and flexibility in New Zealand: A snapshot of employee and employer attitudes and experiences in 2008

Employment Relationship Problems: Costs, Benefits and Choices