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 …
Category: Employment Law
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 …
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 …
Expelling Kids From School
Expelling Kids From School Too many young people it is said are being booted out of secondary school, and what’s more standards vary throughout New Zealand on what one can be expelled for. Foreign students some claim, get a better Read More …
A Boss’s Tale
A Boss’s Tale Bryan Seal is a salt of the earth type. A cabinetmaker by trade, taciturn by nature. He worked as a foreman. His boss was bought out. The new joinery factory owner told him to leave. He did. Read More …
Worker-Boss “betrayal” like marriage cheating
Worker-Boss “betrayal” like marriage cheating. Two cases I have been involved in last month remind one of the obligations workers have to their bosses. Lets look at them – they are instructive. Incidents have been disguised a bit to protect Read More …
ACC Claims For Gradual Work Diseases – Methyl Bromide
ACC Claims For Gradual Work Diseases – Methyl Bromide Suds drives a big truck. He loads it at a silo a few metres from a timber shed. The shed had a gap between the floorboards and the wall. Methyl bromide Read More …