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Help for New Zealand employers running disciplinary investigations, workplace complaint investigations, misconduct investigations, interviews, evidence reviews, and investigation-based dismissals.

Practical help for New Zealand employers considering dismissal, disciplinary action, suspension, warnings, serious misconduct, poor performance, and Personal Grievance risk.

In a disciplinary meeting an employee has rights to procedural fairness and to be fairly heard.

The ERA found the disciplinary process was unjustified and breached good faith.

... after an unfair suspension, a misleading complaint outcome, and a disciplinary process that did not fairly disclose the case the employee had to meet.

Good faith breach The Authority separately found that Talley's failure to carry out a fair disciplinary process breached the duty of good faith.

Employment Relations Authority decisions involving Christmas party incidents that have led to disciplinary action up to and including dismissal.

... a significant barrier and still communicated critical performance and disciplinary information in English rather than Punjabi. The ERA found he did not receive a clear and reasonable opportunity to respond, making ...