Employment Law New Zealand

Unless orders are a last-chance procedural device used when a party has failed to comply with directions. This guide explains what they require and what can happen if the deadline is missed.

The ERA costs practice note explained: the $4,500 first-day and $3,500 subsequent-day tariff, when adjustments are made, and how conduct and settlement offers can affect the final award.

Employment-law lessons from misconduct at Christmas parties and other work functions, including alcohol, off-duty conduct, investigations and when discipline or dismissal may be justified.

A historical guide to the Covid-19 vaccination employment framework, including paid vaccination time, notice provisions and the process issues that arose when vaccination requirements affected employment.

A guide to the employment-law disputes created by workplace Covid-19 vaccination requirements, including dismissal, disadvantage, consultation, alternatives and minimum-entitlement issues.

ERA costs usually start from a daily tariff, but successful employees can seek an uplift where the employer's conduct unnecessarily increased the work, hearing time or expense of the proceeding.

The strict circumstances in which 8% pay-as-you-go holiday pay can lawfully be used for genuinely intermittent or irregular work and qualifying fixed-term employment.

A plain-English map of the agencies and institutions people often mean when they search for the old 'Labour Department': Employment New Zealand, MBIE mediation, Labour Inspectorate functions and the ERA.