Restrictions OK
Jurisdiction Employment Relations Authority - Auckland
Reference No AA 215/02
Hearing date 23 Jul 2002
Determination date 25 July 2002
Member WRC Gardiner
Representation P Tremewan ; E Mills
Location Auckland
Parties Hall v Rugby League Development Trust
Summary UNJUSTIFIED DISMISSAL - UNJUSTIFIED DISADVANTAGE - Alleged induced to breach employment contract - Redundancy - Alleged induced to resign - Submission of grievance - Alleged grievance raised outside 90 days - Grievance raised within 90 days - Two year employment agreement - Informed respondent to be wound up - Agreed to take redundancy payment - Signed accord and satisfaction deed - Not induced to resign - Made redundant - Redundancy payment non-obligatory - Consultation undertaken - Dismissal substantively justified and procedurally fair - No disadvantage suffered
Result Application dismissed ; Costs reserved
Cases Cited Aoraki Corporation Ltd v McGavin [1998] 1 ERNZ 601;British Russian Gazette v Associated Newspapers Ltd [1933] 2 KB 616;Coutts Cars Ltd v Baguley [2001] ERNZ 660 ; [2002] 2 NZLR 533;Evison v Air Sea Global Ltd unreported, WRC Gardiner, 10 May 2002, AA 133/02
Number of Pages 12
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