Emma Monsellier

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 would prefer not to leave their bubble. No doubt this case study will sound familiar to some of you. Case Study I own a retail store and although I am

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 duty to act in good-faith. Yet, what is fair or reasonable to one employer, may not be the same to another. So, how is an employer supposed to know where

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 and this figure is continually on the rise. Therefore, it is fair to say that many of you at some point will have engaged in a settlement agreement (or at

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 grievance is simply conduct by an employee that puts an employer on notice that an employment issue has arisen which needs to be addressed. In general terms, a type of

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 many reasons for workplace absence but the most commonly given reason is caused by workers pulling sickies. According to a ‘Wellness in the Workplace’ survey recently conducted between BusinessNZ and