No doubt you’ve been in the familiar situation where you’re rushing to check-in before your plane takes off. Well a recent Employment Court decision concerning a...
The year has just begun and already we’ve seen a spate of electioneering from our political parties. Markers are already being laid down for what will no doubt be a...
Another year gone by - just like that. Very soon, we’ll be into 2014 which will bring another spate of changes to the employment law landscape. Here’s a quick run down...
It’ll soon be five years since the National Government first rolled out their controversial 90-day trial period policy. In that time, trial periods have attracted their...
It is a well-founded principle of criminal law that someone cannot be tried twice for the same crime. But how does this fly in an employment context? A recent case...
The damning Royal Commission report into the Pike River mining tragedy, issued in November 2011, found that Pike River’s directors had failed to pay sufficient...
For those who remember the blockbusting super-marionation television series of the 1960s, the name Thunderbird One will conjour up thoughts of space-age technology,...
