Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin New Zealand has a high rate of employment among older people and with skills shortages across the country, it is important to ensure they are supported so they keep working. This includes recognising that many aged workers are providing care for others outside of work. Juggling …
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Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin In the recent Employment Relations Authority decision Levchenko-Scott v Presbyterian Support Central Charitable Trust [2020] NZERA 452, a significant penalty was imposed on an employer for providing a verbal reference that breached the terms of a record of settlement. Mr Levchenko-Scott was a manager in …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin The COVID-19 vaccination is currently one of the most hotly debated topics in New Zealand. There is a lot of confusion around an employer’s ability to offer employment or terminate existing employment on the basis of whether or not an applicant/employee has had the vaccination. There …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin This article looks at the ‘ins and outs’ of ending employment relationships during Covid-19 and its aftermath. Furlough or stand down The concept of a “furlough” is essentially an unpaid suspension of employees during a period of business crisis. This is a foreign concept to the …
Terminating Employment (Particularly Restructuring and Redundancies) during Covid-19 Read More »
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin For Hinemihi Rikihana the ReTrain programme has given her the confidence and skills to pursue her passion and turn it into paid work. For almost four years she had been in the tourism sector, starting in maintenance at Rotorua’s Te Puia tourism venture and moving to …
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Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Many New Zealand businesses operated during the various Alert Levels of the COVD-19 pandemic by instructing staff to work from home. Now we are at Alert Level 1 and things could return to the ‘new normal’, some employers are encouraging staff to continue working from home. …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin In a bid to curb the coronavirus outbreak, New Zealand employers put in place precautions to stop the spread of COVID-19 including remote working – where employees were based partly or fully from home. If you had an existing Working from Home Policy this transition may …
Working remotely – will permanent change result from the pandemic? Read More »
Workplace investigations can be a difficult process and may occur at a time when the employment relationship between employees and/or the employer have deteriorated. Any investigation is likely to involve a level of cost, time and risk, and the decision to conduct an in-house investigation or use an external contractor may depend on a number …
Workplace Investigations – Ticking the right boxes for the Employment Court Read More »
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin The first decision of the Employment Relations Authority in respect of the COVID-19 wage subsidy has been released. As has been anticipated, many employers may soon be found liable for wage arrears where there has been a misapplication of the subsidies granted in the wake of …
First out of the Gate: Covid-19 wage subsidy blunder Read More »
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Mr Leota was a driver for a courier company, Parcel Express Limited. He asked the Employment Court (“the Court”) for a declaration that he was an employee of the company. Parcel Express said that Mr Leota was an independent contractor, not an employee. This case involved …
Contractor Courier Driver found to be an Employee – Contractor v Employee Read More »
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