Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work

From 1970 to 2022, the Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work provided valuable insights to policy makers, unions, and employment relations practitioners.

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About the Centre

The Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work (CLEW) was a research centre in the Wellington School of Business and Government. CLEW was the leading research organisation in New Zealand on collective bargaining and union membership. It provided a forum for research into employment relations, human resource management, labour markets, and workplace issues.

The Centre’s public education programme included the annual seminars under the title ‘Trends in Employment Agreements and Employment Law Update’ . These seminars were highly valued by practitioners across New Zealand.

CLEW’s multi-disciplinary research group included academics and practitioners from the fields of human resource management, employment relations, law, sociology, economics, psychology, history, information management, and public policy.

The Centre supported research needs in government, business, and NGOs, with particular strengths in quantitative research and survey methodology.

CLEW people

Find out who the lead and associate researchers were for CLEW, and see a list of members on the Centre's Advisory Board.

Research areas

Explore the key research areas of the Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work.

Publications

View survey results, research reports, and other publications by researchers in the Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work.