Trial Period, Probationary Period or Fixed-Term Agreement?
Ninety-day trial periods for new employees were first introduced for employers with less than 20…
Browsing: Employment law
Heat Turned up on unregulated advocates in the employment law jurisdiction
For those not involved in the employment law industry, the issue of unregulated employment advocates…
Restraints of Trade Getting the Basics Right
Whether a restraint of trade is enforceable is a question that comes across my desk…
Procedural Fairness Revisited
You may (or may not) have noticed this column missing for a few months. It…
Can Covid-19 vaccinations for employees be made mandatory?
The Ministry of Health’s research on potential uptake of the Covid-19 vaccination (in April 2021)…
Bubble trouble: employer obligations to stranded employees
While there was considerable jubilation when the trans-Tasman bubble opened on 19 April, it was…
When an employee’s resignation becomes a dismissal
Receiving a long-awaited resignation from a troublesome employee may, at first blush, look like an…
When employees just don’t get on: dismissals for incompatibility
While 2020 may be a year that many of us would rather leave behind, for…
Illegal workplace investigations coming to an end
In the October 2018 edition of the Waikato Business News, I wrote a piece on…
Dramatic rise in Covid legal cases causing havoc
New Zealand got off mercifully light with only 25 deaths to date from the Covid-19…