Industrial Relations

United Future Will:

• Promote a modern, flexible labour market that is stable. We will avoid wholesale changes to employment legislation every time a government changes on the grounds of ideology, and instead amend current legislation to make it better. We will not indulge in the political ping-pong associated with this issue.
• Increase workforce skills by getting more people into industry training. We will aim to increase the numbers involved in formal industry training to 160,000 per year by 2005.
• Improve workplace literacy, as currently 20% of New Zealand adults have insufficient literacy skills to hold down a job.
• Review grievance and dismissal procedures in the Employment Relations Act.
• Amend the Holidays Act to allow fairness and flexibility for both employers and employees.
• Support greater competition in the provision of ACC services

United Future Parliamentary Office: Bowen House, Lambton Quay, Wellington
Email: Phone: (04) 471 9410