Helen Kelly’s posthumous win: Fair Pay Agreements

Helen Kelly’s posthumous win: Fair Pay Agreements
Rebecca Macfie
If the budget overturned the mother of all budgets 30 years ago, the Fair Pay Agreements legislation green-lit just before the budget ends three decades of labour law that started with the 1991 Employment Contracts Act.FPAs are the big payoff to the trade union movement that NZ First wouldn’t allow Labour to pursue but which will now be law some time later next year.This extract from journalist Rebecca Macfie’s biography of trade union leader Helen Kelly, describes how the FPAs grew from work Kelly began a decade ago.Helen was putti...

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