Saunders & Co Employment Law

12/09/2022

The 26th of September will be a public holiday to mourn the loss of our head of state, Queen Elizabeth II.

What does this mean for your business?

The public holiday will be treated as any other public holiday, so your employees will receive their normal salary if it would otherwise be a working day.

If you do want your employees to work that day you can require them to do so IF the employment agreements provide this. If not, you can request that your employee works that day but they can refuse. If they do work, their standard public holiday entitlements apply.

Give us a call if you have any questions.

29/05/2022

Great interview this morning on RadioNZ on why Employment Advocates need to be regulated. Although ”no win no fee” representatives sound economical, they’re usually designed to trip up vulnerable consumers. Remember to get your legal services from legal professionals!

Concern that rogue employment advocates are causing reputational, financial, and psychological harm to their clients has prompted calls for the regulation of the sector. Employment advocates fulfill a similar role to lawyers during employment disputes, but there are no requirements for qualification...

10/05/2022

This hopefully will lead to greater scrutiny of Gloriavale and other organisations attempting to shirk employment regulations.

The fact their work was undertaken within a religious community did not mean minimum employment standards could be avoided, a judge has ruled.

04/05/2022

This is a new and novel approach to leave entitlements in NZ - how do you think this would work in your business?

They encourage employees to take more than four weeks a year.

19/04/2022

Call us first before you call his lawyer, Bro.

“At least seven businesses are understood to have each paid a chef between $2000 and $6000 after he threatened legal action against them – often within days of starting work.”

At least seven businesses are understood to have each paid a chef between $2000 and $6000 after he threatened legal action against them – often within days of starting work.

14/04/2022

Te Kāhui o Matariki Public Holiday Bill has passed! Aotearoa New Zealand will officially recognise Matariki as a public holiday for the first time on 24 June 2022.

For more information on how this may affect your business, contact us.

The Government has announced the official dates for the Matariki public holiday.

24/03/2022

The Covid-19 Traffic Light System is changing, vaccine mandates are disappearing, and the world is starting to look normal again. What does this mean for your business?
If you have any questions about what you need to do, contact the Employment team at Saunders & Co.

https://www.saunders.co.nz/contact/

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15/03/2022

Does the recent Defence Force and Police High Court decision mark the end of vaccine mandates?

Abi Borrows of our employment team analyses the scope of the decision as well as the circumstances in which Employers can require staff to be RAT tested.

16 March 2022 Policing the Vaccine Does the recent Defence Force and Police decision mark the end of vaccine mandates?  The COVID-19 landscape is ever changing and the recent case of Yardley Wallace and a Defence Force Worker v the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety has added additional co...

14/11/2021

Great to see our client, Christchurch Metal finishers finally obtain closure. We handled their serious misconduct procedure against this employee when they began uncovering these thefts.

Unfortunately this was just the tip of the iceberg.

Greg is a fantastic manager and he spoke passionately at his former employee's sentencing last week. Well done.

She was friendly and hardworking. She was also a thief who betrayed the friendship of her employer. Over four years she stole $80,000.

08/09/2021

While Auckland remains in Alert Level 4, the rest of New Zealand moved to Alert Level 2 at 11.59pm on Tuesday 7 September 2021. There are some differences between this Alert Level 2 and those we have experienced previously, which we discuss in more detail in our article below.

8 September 2021 Delta Alert Level 2 and your Business As of Wednesday, 8 September, we are at Delta Alert Level 2.  This means that even more businesses will be allowed to resume operations.  There will be more people out and about and no restrictions on who you can include in your household bubb...

07/09/2021

“No jab, no job”: The first Employment Relations Authority decision relating to an employee’s refusal to be vaccinated was released yesterday. We summarise the case and give some guidance on when employers can require vaccination in our article below.

7 September 2021 "No Jab, No Job "– Customs Employee justifiably dismissed after refusing vaccine A lot of our clients have been asking us about COVID-19 vaccines, in particular whether they can require their employees to have vaccines.  The Employment Relations Authority (Authority) has recently...