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Cafe Deducted Pay for Breaks Worker Was Never Allowed to Take

Posted by on 24 June 2016 | 0 Comments

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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.

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When a Resignation is a Resignation

Posted by on 25 February 2016 | 0 Comments

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This Employment Relations Authority case is based on a sad set of background facts, but demonstrates when an employer can deem a resignation as exactly that.

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Ex-employee Sets up in Competition to Coffee Roaster

Posted by on 27 August 2015 | 0 Comments

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Caffe Coffee (NZ) Ltd argued in the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) that its ex-employee Sune Farrimond breached the terms of his employment agreement by setting up a competing coffee roasting business. Caffe also said Farrimond had removed confidential commercial information.

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