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Bosses Suing Workers The election over, the pendulum swings further to the bosses right on our industrial relations grandfather clock. Nationals policy is to loosen up collective wage bargaining and this could make unions less and less relevant. Labour’s policy Read More …

Restraint Of Trade Many bosses nowadays, instead of going to a lawyer, simply download model employment agreements from the Department of Labour website. It’s a beauty. Simple, free and so widely used that Employment Court rulings have made interpretations of Read More …

Who Goes And How Do You Handle It? I have a friend who owns a company. To get a wider perspective and stay on side with the bank he appointed outside directors to his Board. They recently resigned. They got Read More …

Exclusion And Expulsion From School – Justified Or Unjustified? This article sets out the case foundation upon which the law surrounding school exclusions and expulsions has evolved. As a bit of a yardstick it draws some parallels with employment law. Read More …

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 …