by William Fussey | Aug 11, 2023 | Employment
Now more than ever, the boundaries between a person’s working life and personal life are blurred. The ubiquitous smartphone enables employees to be connected to their work 24 hours a day, with many work phones and laptops doubling as personal devices. The increasing...
by Shelley Kopu | Aug 11, 2023 | Employment
As Alice Anderson and Riki Donnelly stated in their paper A Representation in Contemporary Aotearoa; Adapting the Approach: it has been 20 years since the Employment Court indicated that employees should not have to plead for their cultural identity to be recognised...
by June Hardacre & Hannah King | Aug 11, 2023 | Employment
Zero-hour employment agreements, where employees are required to remain available without any guarantee of work, became unlawful in 2016 with the introduction of availability provisions into New Zealand’s legislative framework. Since then, case law has evolved to help...
by Rosemary Wooders & Anna Codlin | Aug 11, 2023 | Employment
The number of restructures and redundancies is increasing across New Zealand, with employers often citing economic conditions – including recession, the cost-of-living crisis and inflation – as a key justification. But while the redundancy consultation process has not...
by John Hannan | Aug 11, 2023 | Employment
This is shaping up to be a definitive year for one of the thorniest issues in employment law – whether ostensibly self-employed workers offering services through tech platform-based providers are employees of the platform provider or independent contractors. In the...
