While six former ex-Gloriavale women are engaged in a lengthy litigation case in the Employment Court arguing that they were employees and not volunteers a group of...
Oranga Tamariki does not receive much positive media coverage. The latest report from the Independent Children's Monitor, Aroturuki Tamariki, says that Oranga Tamariki...
Recently in France, more than one million people joined a day of protests and strikes against plans to push back the age of retirement from 62 to 64. President Macron...
HR professionals are used to assisting managers to raise issues with employees. The conventional approach is to follow a number of steps set out in the Employment...
The old adage that “justice moves slowly” is particularly true at present in New Zealand. Court staff have been taking a form of industrial action by working to rule...
Power companies are more often in the media as a result of their profits and the high cost of electricity. A “shout out” to Contact Energy for recently introducing a...
The giant social media companies are again in the media. The social damage that is often the focus of media reports for them is instead another type of social damage;...
The Chief Judge of the Employment Court issued a judgment last week which should send a strong seismic-like wave through the Uber companies and their like, taxi...
Auckland has a new Mayor – Wayne Brown. The Mayor campaigned on a platform of change. On the campaign trail Mr Brown promised to take back control of the...
Cases of being able to successfully justify a dismissal for reasons of incompatibility between employees are rare. How does the employer resolve the situation where an...
A recent series of racist attacks on election campaign billboards of Asian candidates in Auckland show that race still remains an issue for a very small minority of our...
Strikes and lockouts are largely an action of last resort in collective bargaining in New Zealand. When they do happen, they often gain the attention of the public and...
