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Employee Awarded $0.00 for Personal Grievance
Posted by on 27 July 2016 | 0 Comments
Tags: Personal Grievance
Member Tetitaha of the Employment Relations Authority has declined to award any remedies to an employee who was found to be unjustifiably disadvantaged and unjustifiably dismissed because his behaviour was causative and blameworthy.
Our In House Rules
Posted by on 27 July 2016 | 0 Comments
We found this on a blog and thought it made a great set of rules for the workplace. We added a couple of things to fit our business.
Making Deductions from Employees Wages
Posted by on 24 June 2016 | 0 Comments
Tags: Performance, Behaviour & Disciplinary
In a recent case, the Authority determined that a Palmerston North Café had made unauthorised deductions from an employee’s (Ms Hill) wages, even though the they had her written consent to make the deductions.
Cafe Deducted Pay for Breaks Worker Was Never Allowed to Take
Posted by on 24 June 2016 | 0 Comments
Tags: Resignation
Natalie Cornelius was employed as a crew member in a café in Napier. She became concerned by her employer’s practice of deducting 30 minutes wages from her pay each day. This was allegedly to cover breaks which she is adamant she was never allowed to take.
Health & Safety Quick Guides
Posted by on 23 June 2016 | 0 Comments
Tags: Health & Safety
Check out the best practice guides and health & safety checklists below:
Test Your Knowledge
Posted by on 23 June 2016 | 0 Comments
Tags: Test Your Knowledge
Q. My employee has resigned without giving notice. Can I deduct an amount equivalent to their notice from their final pay?
Legislation Changes Ahead
Posted by on 31 March 2016 | 0 Comments
Tags: Legislation Changes
Minimum Wage Increase
Health and Safety obligations for members of charity or volunteer organisations
Posted by on 31 March 2016 | 0 Comments
Tags: Health & Safety
It is important for Board Members or Trustees helping to run a charity or a volunteer organisation to know where their obligations begin and end under the new workplace health and safety law, which comes into effect on Monday 4 April 2016.
Home Detention for Workplace Death
Posted by on 30 March 2016 | 0 Comments
Tags: Health & Safety
Last week a company Director, Rodney Bishop, of Steelcon Construction Ltd was sentenced to four months home detention after the death of a worker who was buried in a trench that collapsed. The company was also fined $56,000 and ordered to pay $212,320 reparations.
Regulations to Support the new Health and Safety at Work Act
Posted by on 30 March 2016 | 0 Comments
Tags: Health & Safety
WorkSafe NZ had advised there would be two phases of regulations to support the new H&S at Work Act 2015. The majority of the first phase of regulations will come into force on 4 April 2016; the same day as the new Act. They are available on www.legislation.govt.nz.
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