Category: Employment Law Articles

Expelling Kids From School Too many young people it is said are being booted out of secondary school, and what’s more standards vary throughout New Zealand on what one can be expelled for. Foreign students some claim, get a better Read More …

A Boss’s Tale Bryan Seal is a salt of the earth type. A cabinetmaker by trade, taciturn by nature. He worked as a foreman. His boss was bought out. The new joinery factory owner told him to leave. He did. Read More …

Worker-Boss “betrayal” like marriage cheating. Two cases I have been involved in last month remind one of the obligations workers have to their bosses. Lets look at them – they are instructive. Incidents have been disguised a bit to protect Read More …

ACC Claims For Gradual Work Diseases – Methyl Bromide Suds drives a big truck. He loads it at a silo a few metres from a timber shed. The shed had a gap between the floorboards and the wall. Methyl bromide Read More …

Viewing Pornography At Work Conducting personal business in the boss’s time would be as old as paid work itself. Pasty white-collar workers hide novels amongst the clutter of their desk papers; swarthy riggers study race books on the scaffold; roadmen Read More …

Tips For Running A Strike For Workers With the 5% “fair share” union wage campaign and strikes in Auckland and Christchurch – how about some subversive strike running tips for fun? How should one run a successful strike? I recently Read More …

Strike Handling Tips For Bosses Stonewall Jackson on a long night march to a desperate battle at dawn muttered to his companion “delicious excitement!”; and General Robert A. Lee surveying the field of carnage observed reflectively “it is well war Read More …

90 Day Trial Law, Is It That Bad? From March 1, if you get a job with small employer, it’s possible you can be fired in the first 90 days of your employment without knowing what for. In addition, have Read More …

Sexual Harassment At Work If a third of our life can be spent at work, it is not surprising that workplaces may be hotbeds for affairs, bullying, discrimination, racism, power plays and subtle clandestine peccadilloes. Employment Law can come into Read More …