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Explore the gripping story of a former Auckland manager who faces paying $100k compensation or potential jail time for non-compliance with labour laws.

A case where health support workers successfully won 14 days of paid sick leave, highlighting collective bargaining and fair entitlements for workers.

A case in NZ where an employee's work-from-home request was rejected, leading to allegations of constructive dismissal, breach of trust, and resignation.

Learn about all the reasons an employee in New Zealand can bring up a personal grievance, as outlined by the Employment Relations Act 2000.

This Bill amendment is to extend the time available to raise a personal grievance that involves allegations of sexual harassment from 90 days to 12 months.

Formal investigations and disciplinary processes are similar -- but there is a difference between when both are needed and when just a disciplinary will suffice.

Have a workplace conduct complaint? Learn when they require investigating within your business and what complaints will require an independent investigator.

We recently supported some clients through the process of invoking the 90-day trial period clause -- here are a few fishhooks that can catch employers out.

Ways to ensure that performance reviews are as bias-free as possible? Here are the top 10 biases affecting performance reviews and ways to avoid them in 2022.

Employees need their managers to show compassion. At the same time, executives expect their managers and their teams to deliver results.

Salesman claimed the loss of his company car and cellphone at the start of the March 2020 lockdown showed his dismissal was premeditated. Click to read the article!

The Fair Pay Agreements bill is aiming to be passed this year. Learn what the bill proposes and what this means for employers and employees. Click to read the article!