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FEATURE: New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act: An Incomplete Revolution

Penelope J Brook | 09 September 1991

New Zealand's new Empolyment Contracts Act abolishes much of the apparatus of the old centralised wage-fixing system. Penelope Brook argues that although the Act represents substantial progress in labour market reform, it retains significant barriers to the realisation of the full benefits of a free contracting regime for employers and employees.

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