Q & A: Restructuring
Paying Employees – Christmas and New Year
Thinking of a Restructure Before Christmas? Some Things You Should Know:
Leaders – Don’t miss out
Christmas Closedowns and Leave Q & A
Redundancy, Performance or Medical Incapacity
There are times an employer is faced with different paths for bringing an employee’s employment to an end. They may…
National’s 100 day plan
Unpaid Interns Declared Employees
Too Sick to be Dismissed?
Fair Pay Agreements Update – This Probably Affects You!
HOT OFF THE PRESS – Big change in legislation
Costly Mistakes in the Redundancy Process
The Power of Chat GPT
Investigations; Q & A
$56k Payout for Bullying
Fair Pay Agreement Update
What is Work?
Sick, Not Sick
Absence & ACC Q & A
Employees Work Overtime?
Payroll over Easter
Fair Pay Agreements: Test your Knowledge
Redundancy Q & A
Employee Affected by Family Violence: A Family Violence Policy May Greatly Assist
Employer Pays for One Small Error in Dismissal Process
Managing Christmas Leave Q & A
Take Care When Making That Offer of Employment
Beware: Redundancy Selection Essentials
Personal Liability for Personal Grievance
The Complexities of Sexual Harassment Complaints
Christmas Closedowns and Leave Q & A
Recent COVID-19 Changes: Q & A
Life as we knew it
Paying Employees for 26 September Public Holiday
House Rules Oversight Costs Employer $10K
Employment Agreements: Q & A
Employment Agreement Clauses: Legislation and Case Law that can Impact
Heat of the Moment Resignations
Redundancy: Getting it Right
Tough Employment Market: Should We Pay More?
Redundancy Q&A
Our first Matariki Public Holiday
Vaccination Mandate Overturned: Should Employers be Concerned?
In short - mostly there is no need to worry despite a High Court decision that ruled the Covid-19 vaccination…
Isolation: Is it sick leave? (Q & A)
Replacing Staff After a Redundancy
After deciding a position is not needed in your organisation and going through the pain of the subsequent redundancy, what…
Mandates, Masks and Scanning: What can Employers Insist on?
Let’s start with yesterday’s (Wednesday 23 March) changes. Vaccine mandates will only be required for those working in health, aged…
Curly Omicron Scenarios Q & A
Wellbeing Resources & Other Support
Here are a number of sites you may find useful to stay abreast of changes, access financial and workplace supports…
Omicron Rules & Regulations – Key Questions Answered
Mandated Boosters On 23 January, the snappily named “COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order 2022” came into force. This…
Giving Notice to Unvaccinated Employees Q & A
Decisions About the Unvaccinated
For organisations where clear, unambiguous government vaccine mandates are in place (e.g. border workers, health sector, teachers), the decisions required…
Managing Wellbeing in the Workplace
Mandated Vaccinations: What to do?
Repayment of $27k Ordered
No jab, no job – Dismissal Justified
Protecting our Business and Team
What Kind of Leave Q&A
Dismissal Justified – $8K Compensation Anyway
Returning to Work: Practical Steps
COVID-19 Policy Pack – Now Available
Court: No obligation to pay minimum wage to non-working employees during lockdown
My Employee Refuses to Take a COVID Test?
COVID-19: Short-term Absence Payment (for testing)
Back to the Basics – FAQ’s
The Source of the Vaccine Microchip Conspiracy Theory
Just for the record that is a definite no – there is no microchip or anything similar in any of…
Contractor Ruled as Employee
Parental Leave: Key Things to Remember
Parent-Teacher Interview Leave
Fair Pay Agreements – How will the Proposed System Work?
Amendment Bill to Increase Sick Leave Entitlements Passes
Unjustifiably Dismissed Gold Mine Worker Awarded $18,980
Justin Banks had only been working for a month at a gold mine in Arahura, near the town of Hokitika,…
Selling Your Business?
‘Sorry, it was a joke’ not Accepted
Security Guards get job Protection
Year Long Backlog for Personal Grievances
Test Your Knowledge: COVID-19 Travel and Vaccinations
Holidays Act Future Changes 2021
Manager Awarded Over $76K Following Flawed Redundancy
Paying Employees for Public Holidays
COVID-19 Vaccinations: Employment Implications
New Public Holiday Recognising Matariki
Urine-based Drug Testing Challenged
COVID-19: Short-term Absence Payment
COVID-19 Vaccinations
Bullied Employee Wins Constructive Dismissal
No Obligation to Pay Minimum Wage to Non-Working Employees During Lockdown
New Sick Leave Entitlement
Potential Christmas Problems Q & A
Christmas Closedowns and Employee Leave
Paying Employees Statutory Days – Christmas and New Year
Privacy Act Changes
Recruitment and Selection Mistakes
Recruiting After Restructuring
Did you Know?…
What to say When?
Overpaid Employee Ordered to Repay Employer
What to say When?
Alert Level 2 – Covid Testing, Payments, Work attendance
Triangular Employment Relationships Explained
Privacy Act – What’s Changing?
Reducing Pay During Level 4 Lockdown: ERA Decisions
Redundancy During COVID-19 lockdown: The first grievance decision
Traffic Stop-Go Controller Sought $80K but Ordered to pay Employer
Yoon Cheol Hong worked for Chevron Traffic Services Ltd as a Traffic Controller from September 2017 until his dismissal in…
Payroll Q & A
When a Discretionary Payment isn’t Discretionary
Employee or Contractor ? A new case.
Wage Subsidy Extension
Personal Grievances from Temps Possible
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Planning for a Return
Paying Public Holidays
Key Government Announcements
Wage Subsidy not a Panacea
Important Things to Keep in Mind
Cashflow Forecasts and Making the Hard Decisions
Subsidy Requirement Changes
On Friday afternoon the government announced some changes to the wage subsidy, and the declaration form the employer is required…