title: The NZ experience--a cautionary tale.
abstract: New Zealand nurses have already faced the changes awaiting Australian nurses and are still recovering from more than a decade of industrial reforms which left their wages far below other professions, eliminated many of their employment rights, and forced many NZ nurses to move overseas to find work. The latest national employment agreement promises to begin to rectify the damage, but as New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) president Jane O'Malley told Fiona Armstrong, it's a long way back from the destruction created by the 1991 Employment Contract Act.
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004651:Employment / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence