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Regulating the Irregular: Accident Compensation Law and Policy - A Case Study of 'Contact' Shearing Employers in the New Zealand Wool Industry

Journal of Research in Business, Economics and Management

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Title Regulating the Irregular: Accident Compensation Law and Policy - A Case Study of 'Contact' Shearing Employers in the New Zealand Wool Industry
 
Creator Angus Burney, Jills
 
Subject accident compensation, ACC, rural labour, shearing
 
Description On-going developments continue to effect the provision of ACC for those in the rural workforce, particularly the levying of shearing contractors in the wool industry. Atypical high wage transaction costs for 'contract employers' problematise the non-wage cost of individual employers' liability levies. Modem relations of labour between shearing contractors and their workers are largely informal. The fluidity of workers entering and exiting the industry is one part of the fluidity, as it is for contractors entering and exiting the industry. This paper focuses on exposing these contradictions to collapse the assumption of a binary contractual relationship between shearing industry parties in the provision of 'workers' compensation' in woolshed relations.
 
Publisher Victoria University of Wellington
 
Date 1998-11-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/1010
10.26686/lew.v0i0.1010
 
Source Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand; 1998: Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand
2463-2600
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/1010/821