How Not to Employ a Nanny from Start to Finish
Yet another Employment Relations Authority case teaching Employment 101 – put your agreement in writing, don’t let your children conduc...
24 Dec
Posts by Fortune Manning Lawyers
24 Dec
Restraints of Trade – Protecting Your Business
The people most likely to take advantage of your business' client relationships are your exiting employees. Often such employees have a...
24 Dec
Poor Performance and Misconduct
In small businesses it can be difficult to address issues of poor performance and misconduct by way of a formal disciplinary process, w...
24 Dec
New Government, New Laws: Changes to Employment Law in the Pipeline
The new Government recently announced plans to modify employment laws. The proposed changes are mostly focussed on strengthening employ...
24 Dec
Employment Guide – Hiring New Employees
It is often said that the biggest asset an organisation has is its employees. Hiring good employees can enhance the organisation and it...
24 Dec
Employment Guide – How to Discipline Employees
The law requires employers to act fairly and reasonably in the employment relationship, including disciplinary action. This is not a ne...
24 Dec
Employment Guide – Redundancy
Redundancy is genuine when the employee’s position eases to exist. This generally occurs in one of the following ways: A decline i...
12 Dec
Employment Guide – Dismissal
There must be a good reason for a dismissal and the dismissal must be carried out fairly. What is fair depends on the circumstances. T...
12 Dec
Employment Guide – Personal Grievance Claims
A personal grievance claim is any grievance that an employee may have against their employer or former employer because of a claim that...
12 Dec
Privacy Act Delivers Significant Compensation Award For Humiliation
Hammon v NZCU Baywide NZHRRT 6 (2 March 2015)
Introduction
The Human Rights Review Tribunal’s recent decision on the Privacy Act 199...