http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/home/ http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/nelson-telemarketer-awarded-5-000/#PageComment_52 This is an unjustified dismissal; both parties accepted that the failure to give Ms Cumming the opportunity to be heard was fatal to any prospect of justifying the grievance. (a) The failure to allow a support person in such an important meeting; (b) The apparent misrepresentation of the nature of that meeting (Ms Cumming imagining that it was a meeting to resolve matters and in fact the employer using it as an investigatory meeting); (c) The recording of the notes of that meeting and the providing of them to the decision-maker without Ms Cumming being aware of that or subsequently being given an opportunity to comment on the accuracy or otherwise of those minutes; (d) The failure by Absolute to give Ms Cumming the opportunity to be heard before dismissal. Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:37:37 +1300 Chapman ER http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/nelson-telemarketer-awarded-5-000/#PageComment_52 http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/nelson-telemarketer-awarded-5-000/#PageComment_51 So am I to understand that the reason for dismissal was unjustified or was it a failure to provide a full and fair process? Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:43:53 +1300 Glen Proffit http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/nelson-telemarketer-awarded-5-000/#PageComment_51 http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/when-is-a-book-not-a-book/#PageComment_37 Personally & I am a little biased I suspect, but Im would have thought the Christain employee would have been the most honest they could find, vindicated by 16 years service perhaps ! One of the things I have learnt in the Chrisain faith, is when employed to do a job, to not complete ones duties in the alloted time frame could be considered Theft & one of the 10 commandments is clearly: "Thou shall not steal" The whole thing was a no brainer if you ask me - I would have handled it totally dofferently & certainly not had the matter confronted by national media - what a farce ! Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:07:39 +1200 Kenn Butler http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/when-is-a-book-not-a-book/#PageComment_37 http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/acc-statistics-nz-v-uk/#PageComment_31 Sadly, 2010 was an extraordinary year with the figure including the mining disaster fatalities. Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:49:43 +1200 Christine Summerville http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/acc-statistics-nz-v-uk/#PageComment_31 http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/acc-statistics-nz-v-uk/#PageComment_30 Interesting figures - looks like the numbers are coming down in NZ Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:42:30 +1200 Peter http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/acc-statistics-nz-v-uk/#PageComment_30 http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/holidays-act-case-studies/#PageComment_23 The key issue in this example is the requirement of the Holidays Act to pay an employee for a public holiday they don't work, if it would have otherwise been a working day for that employee. When we are posed questions like this we ask the employer to ask themselves the question 'that if it hadn't been a public holiday, would the employee have had an expectation of work?' If the answer is yes then they are entitled to be paid. Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:48:42 +1200 Kay Chapman http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/holidays-act-case-studies/#PageComment_23 http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/holidays-act-case-studies/#PageComment_22 Case 2 was clear for me but Case 1 relied on the wording "most Fridays" and where the employer should have applied the practice of fair and reasonable. Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:18:54 +1200 Lindsay Bell http://www.chapmaner.co.nz/news-and-seminars/holidays-act-case-studies/#PageComment_22