People may be interested that Ellen Dannin received good coverage in
the "New Zealand Herald", Auckland, New Zealand's largest circulation
newspaper a week ago (4 August). Headlined "Employment legislation
damned", subtitled "US labour expert Professor Ellen Dannin says the
Employment Contracts Act is unintelligent and full of faults and
predicts labour relations will deteriorate steadily", the
generally sympathetic interview with her includes:
But how about all those jobs created in the past six years,
improved productivity and workplace harmony? "Slaves don't go on
strike too often," responds Professor Dannin, who has just
written a mercilessly critical book, called "Working Free",
about the legislation.
As for all those jobs, she does not think the labour laws had
anything to do with them. Well, how about higher productivity?
"Garbage statistics", says this former trial attorney for
America's National Labor Relations Board, author of many
articles on labour and employment law, and globe-trotting
lecturer.
Bill
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