Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work
From 1970 to 2022, the Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work provided valuable insights to policy makers, unions, and employment relations practitioners.
About the Centre
The Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work (CLEW) was a research centre in the Wellington School of Business and Government. CLEW was the leading research organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand on collective bargaining and union membership. It provided a forum for research into employment relations, human resource management, labour markets, and workplace issues.
The Centre’s public education programme included the annual seminars under the title ‘Trends in Employment Agreements and Employment Law Update’ . These seminars were highly valued by practitioners across Aotearoa New Zealand.
CLEW’s multi-disciplinary research group included academics and practitioners from the fields of human resource management, employment relations, law, sociology, economics, psychology, history, information management, and public policy.
The Centre supported research needs in government, business, and NGOs, with particular strengths in quantitative research and survey methodology.
CLEW was previously known as the Industrial Relations Centre. You can read about the history of the Industrial Relations Centre in Centre of Change: 40 Years of Industrial Relations in Review—The Industrial Relations Centre 1970–2010.
CLEW repository
Access the permanent collection of publications including employment agreements, reports, and other research outputs produced by CLEW and the Industrial Relations Centre, as it was formally known.
Go to the collectionCLEW people
Find out who the lead and associate researchers were for CLEW, and see a list of members on the Centre's Advisory Board.
Research areas
Explore the key research areas of the Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work.
Unpublished reports
View a selection of unpublished reports produced by researchers in the Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work.
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