What financial assistance is available for businesses experiencing a reduction in income due to a COVID-19 alert level change? The Resurgence Support Payment (RSP) is
On Monday 20 April 2020, the Government announced that New Zealand will move out of Alert Level 4 lockdown at 11.59pm on Monday 27 April
ALERT LEVEL 3 BEING PREPARED What are my options as an employer?
ALERT LEVEL 4 LOCKDOWN: What are my options as an employer?
This is a question that we are being asked a lot by employers who are currently performing ‘essential’ services but meeting resistance from staff that
Case Study My business is not listed as an “essential service” and has to remain closed during the lockdown. My staff cannot work remotely so
There is no clearly defined step-by-step guide to conducting a fair restructure or redundancy process. Instead, employers have to think about fairness, reasonableness and the
Based on recent statistics collated by MBIE, it is estimated that over 10,000 employment relationship disputes are resolved by way of settlement agreements every year
This was an interesting question that I recently had to consider in a preliminary hearing before the Employment Relations Authority. Now to me, a personal
The law doesn’t specifically define absenteeism, so what is it? Generally speaking, it refers to “a constant and habitual absence from work”. There could be