Employment Blog

The trial against former Port of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson commenced last week following the workplace fatality of a stevedore at the Port back in 2020.

This last week has seen two important employment law announcements, with The Athletes’ Cooperative Incorporated having a significant win in the Employment Relations Authority, and New Zealand Post announcing their plan to replace their employees with contractors.

With a coalition government imminent, it is clear that we are going to see various changes to employment law. While we can speculate what these might be, there are some proposed changes that are more likely to occur once this coalition is formed.

With special votes confirming the possibility of a three party coalition (comprising National, Act and New Zealand First), a further wait is now required before those respective groups trade their bottom lines to agree on ministerial postings, and, as important, the likely delivery of policy.

As our labour market changes with current economic forces, there is a growing pressure on the way in which employers characterise and organise their workers.

Partner Troy Wano gives an inside scoop on this post-covid predicament.

In the past few months there have been plenty of rapid developments in relation to COVID-19 and employment law, including the country moving into the COVID-19 Protection Framework (traffic light system). We answer some commonly asked questions...

The recently created risk assessment tool – a refinement of an earlier risk assessment for staff – may assist in helping employers decide whether workers can only carry out their roles by being vaccinated.

As vaccination rates have become a near daily obsession, employers continue to consider the various legal rights and obligations that intersect at our workplaces.

In one of the first decisions relating to the dismissal of an employee refusing vaccination, the Employment Relations Authority (‘the Authority’) released its decision on 1 September 2021 in the case of GF v New Zealand Customs Service [2021] NERA 382.