Calling all mediators: employers and employees need your assistance now

Calling all mediators: employers and employees need your assistance now
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Bronwyn Heenan
The Employment Relations Act 2000 came into force more than 24 years ago with the object of building productive employment relationships by promoting good faith in all aspects of the employment environment and employment relationship. One of the six key ways of doing that is “by promoting mediation as the primary problem-solving mechanism other than for enforcing employment standards”.  Under the act, all roads lead to mediation. Employers and employees often use it when they have issues while the employment relations...

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