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The circumstances of non-permanent employees and persons in contracting relationships will also receive close scrutiny.  Issues under consideration include: Repealing the "Hobbit" legislation which cu...

Labour promises to, “in conjunction with relevant stakeholders, develop and introduce a legislative system of industry and sector collective bargaining that allows unions and employers, with the assis...

With the new Government in place unions are on a high, super confident that all the Coalition's policies will be implemented as promised.  Increasing the minimum wage is a case in point and in current...

Paul has decided to retire after 40 years in the HR space, and 33 years as a practising consultant.  After completing a Master of Arts from Victoria University of Wellington he joined Winstone Limited...

We regularly undertake workplace investigations and recently Justine O’Connell completed the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI) study course at its training institute in Baltimore, USA. The ...

Compensation awards in the Employment Relations Authority are trending up but not by much.  For 2016 the average hit $7,000 up from $6,344 the previous year. However, the EMA says employers pay an ave...

Even though the CPI is staying low at 1.7% for the year to June 2017 and projected to remain under that level until 2019, there is increasing pressure in wage negotiations. The combination of the rece...

In the wake of payroll errors in Police and even in MBIE itself, MBIE has been busy conducting audits in many larger organisations. Almost without exception, including some union payrolls, widespread ...

The legislative response to “zero hours” contracts which came into effect on 1 April 2016 continues to cause problems. The Government got itself confused about this matter and left us with many uninte...

The case of Fraser v Carrick Holdings Limited (a McDonald’s franchisee), has been decided in the Employment Court.  In essence the Court decided that provided employees are not required to work more t...

The way things are headed with forming the new Government it’s timely to revisit Labour’s policies in this area. The Jacinda effect meant there was little focus on workplace relations during the campa...