John Key says that a National government would make no major changes to employment relations laws. National have been softening their labour policies for some time, but Key’s statements are highly significant in positioning the party much closer to Labour, and in correctly highlighting that Labour never actually made significant changes to Bill Birch’s ECA:
we haven’t argued for some time that we would go all the way back to the Employment Contracts Act, largely because the Employment Relations Act is 85 per cent a rewrite of the Employment Contracts Act anyway
