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Evidence checklist for an unjustified-dismissal or personal-grievance case: agreements, letters, texts, meeting records, rosters, pay evidence, medical material, job-search records and a reliable chronology.
Costs in employment disputes - how the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) awards costs contributions using the daily tariff, when costs are increased or reduced, and how Employment Court costs can differ.
Employment Court proceedings include challenges to Employment Relations Authority determinations, urgent applications and other specialist employment cases. Deadlines, pleadings, evidence and costs require careful preparation.
How no-win-no-fee employment advocacy works in practice: what counts as success, success fees, disbursements, settlement choices and the clauses clients should examine before signing.
Industry news, practical commentary, and real-world employment law lessons from the coalface in New Zealand. Short updates, longer opinion pieces, and anonymised stories that highlight what goes wrong (and how to avoid it).
A critique of the Employers and Manufacturers Association case for new regulation of employment advocates, focusing on whether the publicly identified evidence demonstrates widespread advocate-specific consumer harm.
After a settlement recorded under s 149, Shearing NZ resisted compliance with payment obligations and pursued confidentiality-related penalties against Ms Mackey and allegations that her advocate had aided or procured a breach. The dispute therefore combined enforcement of the settlement with an attempted expansion of liability to the employee's representative.
What workplace bullying means in New Zealand, the difference between repeated unreasonable behaviour and ordinary conflict or performance management, and the evidence and legal options available to an affected employee.
