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... the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, and key case law on what the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court regard as a full and fair process.

Raise a Personal Grievance (PG) and run the process through mediation and the Employment Relations Authority (ERA).

If you can show the employer labelled something as "serious misconduct" when it was not rational to do so, you often get leverage: leverage on justification, leverage on process, and now (post-2026) leverage on remedies.

If those reviews are incentivized, fake, or otherwise not genuine, the overall impression created can be misleading.

Public court list information confirms an Employment Court judicial review hearing in Menzies v Employment Relations Authority and Another on 10 February 2026.

Names and events are discussed because they have already been published in a public judgment and in RNZ coverage.

In practice, sock-puppet reviews often have the same tells: No real details (no date, no service, no identifiable interaction).

(Peter Drennan) Important: This article is general information for employers.