Comment

Abstract

New Zealand will no doubt celebrate the centennial of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act in the near future, either on 31 August 1994 (100 years after passage) or on I January 1995 (100 years after effect). As that centennial approaches the Green Paper offers a timely and useful opportunity to identify and review the basic assumptions and operating axioms of that system. This comment will set out those assumptions and attempt to articulate the corollaries which flow from them.