COMLAW 314: Employment Law

Library Resources

Referencing Style

Legislation

Case Law

Books, Short Loan and Journals

Reference Materials

Help and Further Readings

Referencing Style

Use APA for referencing all sources of information except case law and legislation.

Use NZLSG (New Zealand Law Style Guide) for referencing case law and legislation only.

Legislation 

New Zealand

New Zealand employment legislation is available full text in Brookers Online  (helpsheet) and LexisNexis NZ (helpsheet).  The links below take you directly into Brookers Online (they may take a moment to load):

• Employment Relations Act 2000
  See also  Employment Relations Amendment Act 2007 which is consolidated into the above act 
• Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992
• Holidays Act 2003
  See also Holidays Amendment Act 2004 which is consolidated into the above act
• Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987
  See also  Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Act 2006 which is consolidated into the above act
• Privacy Act 1993
• Protected Disclosures Act 2000

Regulations

• Minumum Wage Order 2011 - $13 per hour for adults and $10.40 per hour for new entrant and training rates, as of 1 April 2011.
• Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Rate of Parental Leave Payment) Regulations 2009

Repealed

• Employment Contracts Act 1991

See Also

• Brookers Employment Law commentary available in Brookers Online.  Open the commentary at the following section headings (use the browser Back button to return to this page):
  • Employment Relations Act 2000 : part 1 Key Provisions
  • Employment Relations Act 2000 : part 2 Preliminary Provisions
  • Employment Relations Act 2000 : part 3 Freedom of Association 
  • Employment Relations Act 2000 : part 5 Collective Bargaining
  • Employment Relations Act 2000 : part 6 Individual Employees’ Terms and Conditions of Employment 
  • Employment Relations Act 2000 : part 8 Strikes and Lockouts 
  • Employment Relations Act 2000 : part 9 Personal Grievances, Disputes, and Enforcement
  • Minimum Code
  • Holidays
  • Parental Leave
  • Occupational Safety and Health
  • Human Rights
  • Common Law

See Also

• Wall Index to Statutes at the end of Stack 1A / 1B, Level 2, Davis Law Library. Access point to NZ printed statutes on Stack 1B
• New Zealand Statutes   in LexisNexis NZ 

Case Law (New Zealand)

Reporting Series Covering Employment Law in the Davis Law Library and Online

• Employment Reports of New Zealand (ERNZ) full text Brookers Online; and Davis Law Library Stack 2B
• Judgments etc. of the Arbitration Court of New Zealand (ACJ) Davis Law Library Stack 3A
• New Zealand Industrial Law Reports (NZILR)  Davis Law Library Stack 3A
• New Zealand Employment Law Cases (NZELC) full text IntelliConnect (CCH); and Davis Law Library Stack 3A
• New Zealand Law Reports (NZLR) full text LexisNexis NZ from 1958; and Davis Law Library Stack 3A

Linxplus and Briefcase Databases

• Linxplus (also inside LexisNexis NZ) and Briefcase provide summaries and full text reported and unreported judgments. Judgments on Linxplus are taken from the Court of Appeal and High Court. 
  Judgments on Briefcase are taken from the District Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Privy Council and other selected judicial bodies

See Also

• Employment Court of New Zealand
• Further Davis Law Library links to New Zealand Cases

Books, Short Loans and Journals 

Library Catalogue

To locate material in the library on employment law you are advised to search the library's online catalogue  

• Books are shelved in the Davis Law library on Level 1 by Moys call number, an internationally recognised legal classification scheme   
• Journals are shelved in the Davis Law Library on Level 1 in alphabetical order

Catalogue Subject Headings

Below are a selection of Subject Headings to help get you started.  They open up a Voyager subject heading index.  From this screen click on a subject heading of interest to display a corresponding list of books and journals:

Short Loan Items

• Five years after : the New Zealand labour market and the Employment Contracts Act / Tim Maloney. 
  Wellington, N.Z. : Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 1998 
•  A guide to the Employment Relations Act / by Tom Gilbert, Andrew Scott-Howman, Karen Smith ; with a foreword by Alastair Dumbleton. Wellington, [N.Z.] : Butterworths, 2000 
• IIR's 17th Annual Industrial Relations Conference, 5 & 6 March 2003, Crowne Plaza, Auckland. 
  [Auckland, N.Z. : Institute for International Research, 2003] 
• LexisNexis employment law guide / Butterworths employment law guide. 
  7th ed. Wellington, N.Z. : LexisNexis Butterworths, 2005.
• New Zealand employment law guide / Richard Rudman. 
  2007 ed. Auckland, N.Z. : CCH New Zealand, 2007

Reference Materials 

Legal Abbreviations

• LCANZ (Legal Citations of Aotearoa New Zealand ) - searchable by abbreviation and title
• Law Reports held in the Davis Law Library - searchable by abbreviation and title
• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

Encyclopedia

• Employment

Dictionaries

• Butterworths New Zealand law dictionary / by Peter Spiller.  LexisNexis NZ, 2005
  Davis Law Library Quick Reference K120.5 L1 SPI 2005 

Help and Further Readings 

• For search tips and further help using the library's online catalogue, or book a Library Workshop  
  
• Individual database training sessions for Brookers Online (including Briefcase) and LexisNexis NZ (including Linxplus) are run during semester.  Book online Select Courses for: LAW 
  Helpsheets are available for the individual databases.