Restrictions OK
Jurisdiction Employment Relations Authority - Auckland
Reference No AA 235/05
Hearing date 14 Jun 2005
Determination date 27 June 2005
Member L Robinson
Representation PM Morgan (in person) ; C Blake
Location Auckland
Parties Morgan v Auckland City Council
Summary COMPLIANCE ORDER - Applicant sought compliance with term of employment agreement requiring respondent to provide her with full business use of car park - Respondent proposed to take away car park but pay allowance sufficient to cover costs of leasing same car park from respondent - Allowance to remain same even if cost of car park increased - Respondent contractually bound to provide applicant with car park - Wording of relevant contractual provision sufficiently broad to allow respondent to proceed in terms of proposal - Respondent’s proposal still provided applicant with car park for her full business use - Continuing obligation on respondent to provide car park - If current car park became unavailable in future onus on respondent not applicant to find alternative park - If allowance paid to applicant became insufficient to cover cost of car park applicant would suffer disadvantage that could give rise to personal grievance - No formal orders made - Parties expected to take considered views of Authority into account in dealing with employment relationship problem - Manager business support
Result Application dismissed ; Informal directions given ; Costs reserved
Number of Pages 4
PDF File Link: aa 235_05.pdf [pdf 60 KB]