Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin On the 24th of this month everyone will be entitled to 10-days’ sick leave instead of five. And while we might think this is a solution looking for a problem – on average only 4.7 per cent of the five days are used per year – …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin The Holidays Act 2003 (“the Act”) is well known for its complexities, resulting in costly mistakes for businesses and significant underpayments to employees. The Holidays Act Taskforce (“Taskforce”) was created in 2018 to review the Act and make recommendations for its simplification, following a joint request …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin EMA consultant Jason Tuck helps numerous clients through restructuring to improve efficiency, reduce costs and become more flexible businesses, but has noticed a general lack of understanding on how to successful manage a retsructure. If you get it wrong you could up on the wrong side …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Supply chains are an area of business that are subject to greater consumer scrutiny and more onerous legal obligations in terms of ‘modern slavery’ legislation. The term ‘modern slavery’ refers to situations where people who are victims of slavery are subject to threats, coercion, exploitation and …
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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 …
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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. …
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