Tips For Running A Strike For Workers How should one run a successful strike? I recently represented workers in a multinational company. The foreign bosses criticised New Zealand managers for not squeezing out maximum shareholder value and being too soft Read More …
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Statutory Holidays And In Lieu Days
Updated for 2017. Working ‘the stats’ and the ‘day in lieu’ entitlements explained. Observed Holidays If Saturday is Christmas day – Sunday, Boxing day, the observation of these holidays in employment law is transferred to the following Monday and Tuesday. Read More …
Biggles Goes Solo
“Here Dad – Happy birthday” Brighid perkily presented me a voucher for an $149 introductory flying lesson. “What a top thing to do. Thanks a million. Doubt though if my eyesight will let me fly.” I replied with the caution Read More …
Walking Home From The Pub
Walking home from the pub with a mate in deep conversation we came across an English family. They were disconsolate about a sick Morepork on the footpath. It was tiny, looked close to death and in a pool of what Read More …
Tuscan Sun Festival
High on an Italian hill, steep as Mount Victoria the Tuscan town of Cortona squats. Within its defensive Etruscan (pre Roman) high walls is the home for 25,000 people in an area the size of Eastbourne. Geology determines its character. Read More …
Sailing a 33 Footer to Tonga
Trouble being self employed – no superannuation. How about a retirement plan with some spice. Cajole the bank to invest in a small charter yacht in Tonga. The 33-foot spanking new yacht arrived for assembly in Auckland. Job now is Read More …
Bosses Suing Workers
Bosses Suing Workers The election over, the pendulum swings further to the bosses right on our industrial relations grandfather clock. Nationals policy is to loosen up collective wage bargaining and this could make unions less and less relevant. Labour’s policy Read More …
Restraint Of Trade
Restraint Of Trade Many bosses nowadays, instead of going to a lawyer, simply download model employment agreements from the Department of Labour website. It’s a beauty. Simple, free and so widely used that Employment Court rulings have made interpretations of Read More …
Who Goes And How Do You Handle It?
Who Goes And How Do You Handle It? I have a friend who owns a company. To get a wider perspective and stay on side with the bank he appointed outside directors to his Board. They recently resigned. They got Read More …
Exclusion And Expulsion From School – Justified Or Unjustified?
Exclusion And Expulsion From School – Justified Or Unjustified? This article sets out the case foundation upon which the law surrounding school exclusions and expulsions has evolved. As a bit of a yardstick it draws some parallels with employment law. Read More …