Uber drivers classified as employees: Court of Appeal dismisses Uber’s appeal The Court of Appeal has dismissed Uber’s appeal and upheld the 2022 Employment Court decision that four Uber drivers…
Return of the trial period – common pitfalls and lessons learned Since trial periods were reintroduced to the employers’ toolkit in December 2023, we have noticed a wide spectrum of…
On 13 June 2023, the Health and Safety at Work (Health and Safety Representatives and Committees) Amendment Act 2023 came into force. This Amendment requires all persons conducting a business…
In the wake of the “#MeToo” movement, employees who believe they have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace will now have four times as long to raise this grievance with…
In late 2021, the Employment Relations (Extended Time for Personal Grievance for Sexual Harassment) Amendment Bill was introduced into Parliament. This Bill has now passed the committee of whole house…
On Wednesday 26 October 2022, the ‘Fair Pay Agreements Bill’ passed its third and final reading in Parliament. It is expected to come into force on 1 December 2022. What…
In a marked change from the position adopted by the same court in 2020, the Employment Court on 25 October 2022 found that four Uber drivers were employees, not independent…
In this post-COVID world, some employers may be finding that their employees’ annual holiday balances have crept up, and they may be asking themselves whether they can direct those employees…
The question of whether someone is an employee, or a contractor, can have significant implications for both parties. This question has been hotly debated, and the Employment Relations Authority and…
For a long time, employers in New Zealand have complained of ‘shake-down’ type claims, where a disgruntled former employee raises a personal grievance which has very little prospect of success,…