How s 150A treats payments made on resolution of an employment problem, including settlements where the employer separately pays an employee's advocate against a defined GST invoice.
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Employer-side guidance on controlling representation costs in a personal-grievance defence and understanding the gap between a lawyer's invoice and the costs normally recoverable in the ERA.
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What an employer can realistically recover in ERA costs after successfully defending a claim, including the daily-tariff starting point and the circumstances that can increase or reduce an award.
Employment Court procedural failures are sometimes attributed to non-lawyer advocates, but this article examines reported examples showing that competence and compliance problems can also arise with lawyers and represented parties.
