No. 11 - Right of Association (Agriculture), 1921

Provisions

• This Convention requires ratifying countries to guarantee to agricultural workers the same rights of association and combination as industrial workers have; and
• This Convention also requires that ratifying countries repeal any statutory or other provisions that restrict those rights for agricultural workers.

Administered by

Department of Labour

• Employment Relations Act 2000
• Trade Unions Act 1908

Ministry of Justice

• Human Rights Act 1993
• New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990

How New Zealand implements it

• The Employment Relations Act applies to employees in agriculture to the same extent as to employees in other sectors.
• The Employment Relations Act deals with all matters relating to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
• The Employment Relations Act gives all employees the right to join a union of their choice.
• Furthermore, the Employment Relations Act also gives all employees, including agricultural employees, access to personal grievance procedures if they believe they:
  • have suffered discrimination because of involvement with a union; or
  • have been subject to duress relating to their membership or non-membership of a union.
• Section 17, of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act guarantees, subject to justified limitations, every person the right to freedom of association.
• The Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination on certain grounds and applies to employees in agriculture to the same extent as it applies to employees in other sectors.

This Convention is not applicable to Tokelau.

Ratified - 29 March 1938

Total ratifications - 122

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