The Territorial Scope of New Zealand Employment Law: Quarter-Acre or Global Village?
(2003) 9 New Zealand Business Law Quarterly 281-286
9 Pages Posted: 20 Mar 2015
Date Written: March 15, 2003
Abstract
Discussion of the territorial scope of the New Zealand Wages Protection Act in Mehta v Elliot (Labour Inspector). The authors argue that the territorial scope of all New Zealand statutes should be addressed by Parliament as a matter of course. As Judge Colgan pointed out in Mehta, this issue does not just affect s 12A of the Wages protection Act. Parliament should also review “other fundamental elements of employment law [that] may be likewise restricted in their applications within the boundaries of the New Zealand quarter-acre in today’s global village”.
Keywords: employment law, extra-territorial, conflict of laws, private international law
JEL Classification: K1, K12, K2, K3, K31, K33, K4, K41
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