New Zealand: Employment Litigation/ Tribunals

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My Business Has Received A Personal Grievance. What Should I Do?

This article provides practical guidance on what steps you should take when your business receives a personal grievance, helping you navigate the process effectively while minimising risk to your business.

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LegalVision

When is it appropriate to suspend an employee from work?

An employer must follow the rules of natural justice including consulting with the employee.

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Balancing family and business: employment issues in family businesses

Case law highlights the difficulties which can come from such informal familial arrangements.

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

The year ahead in employment law: what to expect in 2025

Potential changes to Aotearoa New Zealand's employment law framework.

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Verbal warnings: valid or void?

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Reforms announced related to employee misconduct and personal grievance remedies

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

A call to action: a renewed case for regulation of employment advocates

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Time to start looking at employment in 2024

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Change on the Horizon: What the Coalition Agreements and 100-day plan means for Employment in Aotearoa New Zealand

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Key tips to manage employment disputes

New Zealand Employment

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LegalVision

Workplace Investigations: Best practices for employers in handling employee misconduct and complaints in NZ

New Zealand Employment

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LegalVision

How can NZ employers enforce a restraint of trade clause?

New Zealand Employment

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LegalVision

What to expect at an employment mediation

New Zealand Employment

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Cavell Leitch

Children Working In A Religious Community Were Employees

New Zealand Employment

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Ius Laboris

High Court Clarifies Procedure For Interim Relief For Disputes Pending Arbitration

New Zealand Litigation

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

My Business Has Received A Personal Grievance. What Should I Do?

New Zealand Employment

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LegalVision

Customer Disputes Over Defective Work: Your Legal Options

New Zealand Commercial

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LegalVision

Patents Amendment Bill 2025 barely raises a murmur during first Parliamentary Reading

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Spruson & Ferguson

What Are The Differences Between Remuneration, Wages And Salary In NZ?

New Zealand Employment

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LegalVision

Agreements are made to be kept; employee restraint of trade held to be enforceable

In deciding whether to enforce the restraints, ERA considered whether they were reasonable & questioned the scope of the terms.

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Employment Relations Authority rules on no jab, no job

This decision is useful guidance for employers who are considering requiring vaccination for some or all their workers.

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Hot off the Press: Uber drivers are workers

Employers must carefully consider the classification of the worker at the time of entering into an agreement or contract.

New Zealand Employment

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Uber Driver Not An Employee: New Zealand Employment Court Ruling

In a recent decision, New Zealand's Employment Court has found that an Uber driver was an independent contractor and not an employee.

New Zealand Employment

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Ius Laboris

When An Employee Wants To Be Made Redundant: A Ruling From The New Zealand Employment Court

New Zealand Employment

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Ius Laboris

The Privacy Commissioner recently released guidance on right to workplace bullying information by a complainant

New Zealand Employment

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Duncan Cotterill

Critical Employment Law Changes

New Zealand Employment

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Littler Mendelson

Sound health and safety guidance from pioneer case

New Zealand Employment

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Chapman Tripp

High Court decision on health and safety sentencing released

New Zealand Employment

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Duncan Cotterill

Christchurch employer banned from employing staff for three years

New Zealand Employment

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Cavell Leitch

Is my business on the non-compliant employer list?

New Zealand Immigration

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Cavell Leitch

Resignations and Dismissals: Hot heads, walk outs, and cool downs – a warning note for employers

New Zealand Employment

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Cavell Leitch

Covert recordings by employees as evidence

New Zealand Litigation

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Enforceable undertakings as an alternative to prosecution

New Zealand Employment

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Duncan Cotterill

Is my business on the non-compliant employer list?

While on the list, the employer is unable to support an employee to apply for a further work visa or for residence.

New Zealand Immigration

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Cavell Leitch

Resignations and Dismissals: Hot heads, walk outs, and cool downs – a warning note for employers

In heated situations, seek advice regarding the validity of resignations or the possibility of an unintentional dismissal. .

New Zealand Employment

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Cavell Leitch

Covert recordings by employees as evidence

This article in Law Talk looks at the admissibility of covert audio recordings as evidence in an employment dispute.

New Zealand Litigation

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Wynn Williams Lawyers

Enforceable undertakings as an alternative to prosecution

An enforceable undertaking is a legally binding agreement between WorkSafe and the duty holder to remedy a breach.

New Zealand Employment

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Duncan Cotterill

The Health and Safety at Work Act - Rising fines for health and safety prosecutions

New Zealand Employment

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Duncan Cotterill

Employer awarded $4.29 million for "springboard" effect of employees' breaches of contract

An employer was recently awarded damages against three former employees for breaches of their implied employment duties.

New Zealand Employment

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Bell Gully

Hobbit Employment Bill - small, but perfectly formed?

True to the terms of its deal with Warner Bros, the Government is rushing through a Bill to clarify the distinction between independent contractors and employees in the film industry.

New Zealand Employment

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Chapman Tripp

Problems Of ‘Preference’ When Only Some Staff Are Union Members

Collective bargaining has advantages for employers. There is no need to negotiate individual pay, terms and conditions with individual staff members.

New Zealand Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

Anton Piller Orders Get A Makeover

Readers may recall that over the last three years there has been some controversy over whether the Employment Court and Employment Relations Authority (ERA) could issue Anton Piller orders.

New Zealand Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

Procedural Fairness

New Zealand Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

Collective Employment Agreement Negotiations: The Battle For Hearts And Minds

New Zealand Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

How To Justify The Decision To Dismiss An Employee

New Zealand Employment

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Norris Ward McKinnon

Employees Not Always Entitled To Time And A Half For Working On A Public Holiday

New Zealand Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

Redundancy – Getting It Right

New Zealand Employment

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Brookfields

Employment Court Confirms ‘Statutory Curb’ On Ability To Justify Dismissals

New Zealand Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

NZ Employment Bulletin: Employers’ Policies & Procedures – What They Really Mean

New Zealand Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

NZ Employment Bulletin: Proposed Amendments to the Provisions for Protection of ‘vulnerable Workers’ in Restructuring Situations – Loophole Closed

New Zealand Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

NZ Employment Bulletin: Considering a Business Restructure – Points to Watch

New Zealand Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

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Inside Employment Podcast Series - Investigations, Part 1 - What's The Fuss With Whistleblowing Investigations? (Video)

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Federal Election Podcast And Video Series: Workplace Reforms

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Article 1 – Who is WIRO (WorkCover Independent Review Officer) and how do they help injured workers?

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Carroll & O'Dea

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