Date: 07 Aug 2020, Filed under: Employment Law, Employment Agreements, Child Law, Adoption
Under New Zealand employment law, employees are entitled to take time off work for holidays (annual leave) and also to take time off work to care for a...
Date: 06 Mar 2018, Filed under: Employment Law, Employment Agreements
The Employment Relations Authority has upheld a personal grievance for unjustified dismissal of a worker following confusion over the status of his employment...
Date: 09 Feb 2018, Filed under: Employment Law, Employment Relationship Problems, Employment Agreements
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) upheld Qantas employees concerns over changing rosters, ordering payments as a penalty for breaching the collective...
Date: 12 Sep 2013, Filed under: Employment Law, Employment Relationship Problems, Employment Agreements, Personal Grievances, Redundancy
Normally, holiday pay can only be paid to an employee in New Zealand if they take annual leave, cash in annual leave (a maximum of one week per year may...
Date: 09 Sep 2013, Filed under: Contract Law, Employment Law, Employment Relationship Problems, Employment Agreements, Personal Grievances
When resigning from a job, an employee may ask what their employer can do if they don’t give the notice that is required by their employment agreement....
Date: 06 Sep 2013, Filed under: Contract Law, Employment Law, Employment Relationship Problems, Employment Agreements, Personal Grievances, Human Rights
In New Zealand, the Human Rights Act 1993 and Employment Relations Act 2000 makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee (or potential...
Date: 26 Aug 2013, Filed under: Contract Law, Employment Law, Employment Relationship Problems, Employment Agreements, Personal Grievances
Abandonment of employment is a concept in New Zealand case law (it’s not specifically covered by legislation) where an employer can declare an employee’s...
Date: 23 Aug 2013, Filed under: Employment Law, Employment Relationship Problems, Employment Agreements, Personal Grievances
The legal requirement for employers to provide employees with rest and meal breaks in New Zealand is covered by Part 6D of the Employment Relations Act...
Date: 12 Aug 2013, Filed under: Workplace Injuries, Employment Law, Employment Relationship Problems, Employment Agreements, Personal Grievances, Redundancy, Mediation, Privacy
At the last election, the Government committed to making changes to employment law. Its proposals were published in June 2013, in the form of the Employment...
Date: 09 Aug 2013, Filed under: Criminal Charges, Employment Law, Employment Relationship Problems, Employment Agreements, Personal Grievances, Immigration, Privacy
When an employer is hiring a new employee, it’s important to carry out reference checks before confirming an offer of employment.
Many employers also...
