Jenni McManus
Significant changes over the past 25 years in the way employment litigation is conducted have created long delays in the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court and a massive blowout in costs to both employers and employees.
That was the key message from Christina Inglis, Chief Judge of the Employment Court, to attendee at The Law Association’s Burning Issues conference in Auckland today. But “we can learn a lot from that”, Chief Judge Inglis said, in a wide-ranging speech that compared the way employment law was practised at the turn of the century with the way the profession, the Employment Relations Authority and the Employment Court conduct business today. All three could use this information to help address the problems the jurisdiction is facing.
“Academics in the western world have routinely described employment law as being in a state of crisis,” Inglis said, “that the pressures being brought to bear are pummelling it with increased regularity and intensity and that it is being asked to respond to old issues presented in new ways.
“Fragmentation within the world of work ….has been identified as a key contributor….More particularly, globalisation, the fall of collectivism and the rise of individualism, increased worker precarity, flexibility of work, flows of information and misinformation, an evolving understanding of the way in which human rights intersect with and inform employment relationships – all underlie a very difficult time in...
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