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Contractor v Employee - do you Know the Difference?
Posted by on 2 August 2017 | 0 Comments
Are your contractors really contractors or are they employees?
Huge Fines for Categorising Employees Incorrectly as Contractors
Posted by on 2 August 2017 | 0 Comments
Tags: Employment Agreements
The sole director and shareholder of Direct Auto Importers and Cheap Deals on Wheels, Vishaal Sharma, had claimed that his employees were contractors and had denied owing them their minimum entitlements.
Changes to Parental Leave Payments
Posted by on 2 August 2017 | 0 Comments
Tags: Leave
There are two main changes to parental leave payments that have taken effect as of 1 June 2017.
Restraint of Trade: Worth the Paper it is Written on?
Posted by on 20 June 2017 | 0 Comments
Many employers want to include a restraint of trade in their employment agreements in an attempt to protect their business’s propriety interests such as clients, employees, and commercially sensitive information. However, there is a tension between the employer’s desire and the employee’s fundamental right of the freedom to work and earn a living. For the most part, if the restraint unduly impinges on the employee’s ability to earn a living then the restraint will not be enforceable.
Updated Guides for Preventing & Responding to Bullying at Work
Posted by on 18 June 2017 | 0 Comments
Does your workplace’s risk/hazard register identify the potential risks to health and safety of unacceptable behaviours e.g. bullying, discrimination or harassment? One control you might include could be to review with your staff and make available to them, WorkSafe New Zealand’s guides and information about these behaviours and how to prevent and respond to them at work.
Unjustifiably Dismissed but no Award Given
Posted by on 18 June 2017 | 0 Comments
A Wellington restaurant has been found to have unjustifiably dismissed its former head chef, even though the chef had attempted to sell methamphetamine to co-workers.
Innovative App Helps Nelson-based Firm Win National Business Competition
Posted by on 1 June 2017 | 0 Comments
News Release - for immediate release
Test Your Knowledge - The Privacy Act 1993
Posted by on 24 May 2017 | 0 Comments
Tags: Test Your Knowledge
The purpose of the Privacy Act 1993 is to promote and protect individual privacy - in particular to establish principles on: collection, use, and disclosure of information relating to individuals and access by individuals to information held about them.
Employee with Suppression Order Gets Final Warning
Posted by on 24 May 2017 | 0 Comments
A recent case that has gone through the Employment Relations Authority, the Employment Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court has confirmed an employer may have the right to know the details of charges or offences against its employee regardless of any non-publication or suppression orders that may be in place.
Supersize Chapman ER!
Posted by on 24 May 2017 | 0 Comments
BNZ and Newstalk ZB have collaborated to create a project called Supersize SME. They are helping three businesses to grow through expert mentors and following their respective stories. Chapman ER has been selected as one of those businesses.
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