Doing The Work of Striking Workers - just what does this mean?

On 17 May 2010 the majority of the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in the case Air Nelson v EPMU on how employers and employees should interpret the strike breaking provision s97 Employment Relations Act 2000 (Performance of duties of striking or locked out employees).

The facts of the case were straight forward. Air Nelson and the EPMU were locked in collective bargaining negotiations which got bogged down. The union exercised their statutory right to take industrial action. That industrial action included not carrying out minor line maintenance work on aircraft – namely inspection, light replacement, and engine compression washes. About 99% of this minor line maintenance work was normally carried out by the striking employees, but some of this work was also done by contractors. So, during the strike, Air Nelson got the contractors to do more line maintenance work. The union claimed that this was a breach of s97 Employment Relations Act 2000 which regulates the performance of duties of striking or locked out employees during a strike.

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Review of Personal Grievances

EMA Central has made a submission to the Department of labour for the review of personal grievances (Review of Part 9 Employment Relations Act 2000, Personal Grievances). You can click here to read the submission made on behalf of members.

NZ Leaders Stronger and Wiser from the Recession

NZ business leaders have come out of the recession stronger and wiser but must make sure they don’t slip back into the “leadership lazy boy” say leadership development company Catapult and EMA Central.

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Employment Relations Act 2000 - thanks for your feedback

Thank you to those EMA Central members who provided us with information to feed into our submission to the Department of Labour on the review of Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act 2000. Here is the submission we made on your behalf.