The government stayed true to its policy position by announcing that the rate will increase to $17.70/hour on 1 April. We expected that level of increase because it reflects a “straight line” approa...
Read MoreThe Bill has been passed. Some provisions come into effect on 6 December and the balance on 6 May 2019. Those with immediate effect are: Unions need consent to enter an employer's premises unless a c...
Read MoreIt appears there has been more going on in the background on this Bill than we thought. It is now clear that NZ First has forced a couple of key changes to the Bill, which also explains why its progr...
Read MoreBackground The Bill, introduced on 19 September, is the latest in a long line of proposals to amend the Equal Pay Act of 1972. People often use the terms Pay Equity and Equal Pay interchangeably, but...
Read MoreIt is very disappointing that the Select Committee couldn’t reach a sensible conclusion on rest and meal breaks as the prescriptive approach in the Bill simply won’t work. For example, it stipulates ...
Read MoreThe decision determined appeals brought by three companies fined under s.48 by the District Court, being Stumpmaster v Worksafe New Zealand; The Tasman Tanning Company v WorkSafe New Zealand; Niagara ...
Read MoreThe Group is made up of employer, worker and government representatives and is chaired by Gordon Anderson, a law professor at Victoria University with extensive experience in employment law. The revie...
Read MoreIn this context, a person affected by domestic violence means a person who is one or both of the following: a person against whom any other person is inflicting, or has inflicted, domestic violence, a...
Read MoreThe Government committed to introducing statutory support and legal rights for dependent contractors who are effectively workers under the control of an employer but who do not receive the legal prote...
Read MoreThis amounts to some level of re-establishment of the old award system – by stealth over time, if not immediately. The spectre of demarcation disputes is there, with the group charged with “determini...
Read MoreFor some time the concept of triangular employment has been an issue. In the recent case of Prasad v LSG Skychefs [2017] NZEmpC 150, to which the current legislation applied, the Court found the empl...
Read MoreMost of the proposed changes simply roll back changes made by the National Government in 2015. Some of the changes apply from the day after the date of Royal Assent and so will be in force before the ...
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