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The seminar marking CLEW's 50th Anniversary - ‘Is it time to reset our Employment Relations Systems?’ attracted not only an excellent range of presenters to tackle the topic but also a wide range of people from across the New Zealand employment relations community.
Dr Stephen Blumenfeld, CLEW's Director, discusses the Government's recent 'guidelines for wage bargaining' in central government agencies. The announcement, a de facto ‘pay freeze’ for public servants over the next three years - limited pay increases to those earning less than $60,000 a year, and those earning above that level up to $100,000 may be offered pay increases in some circumstances. But is there justification for such a "freeze" and what are the possible consequences?
The Government’s announcement on May 7 of the Fair Pay Agreements, while following the seminar by three weeks, came as no surprise to those who attended CLEW’s 50th Anniversary seminar - ‘Is it time to reset our Employment Relations Systems?'
The Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work (CLEW) celebrated their 50th anniversary with a seminar exploring if it is time for an employment relations reset.
In each of our CLEW'd In Newsletters we gather a selection of interesting articles and reports received at CLEW from a range of sources and on a range of topics related to employment and work. In particular we acknowledge the APO Policy Weekly for alerting us to interesting papers from across the Tasman. The following are articles collected in the last month for our March edition of CLEW'd IN, CLEW's bi-monthly newsletter.
