Restrictions OK
Jurisdiction Employment Relations Authority - Auckland
Reference No AA 258/02
Hearing date 26 Aug 2002
Determination date 28 August 2002
Member WRC Gardiner
Representation D Clark ; A Sharp
Location Auckland
Parties Sims v Rapallo International Ltd
Summary UNJUSTIFIED DISMISSAL - Redundancy - Applicant claimed she was both summarily and constructively dismissed - Told at meeting of proposed restructure - No repudiatory behaviour at meeting - Second meeting arranged to further discuss proposal - Invited to bring representative - Proposed restructuring was genuine - Credibility issues surrounding applicant's claims of both actual and constructive dismissal - No actual or constructive dismissal - Sales representative
Result Application dismissed ; Costs reserved
Cases Cited Auckland Electric Power Board v Auckland Provincial District Local Authorities Officers IUOW Inc [1994] 1 ERNZ 168 ; [1994] 2 NZLR 415;Auckland etc Shop Employees etc IUOW v Woolworths (NZ) Ltd [1985] ACJ 963 ; [1985] 2 NZLR 372;Coca-Cola Amatil (NZ) Ltd v Kaczorowski [1998] 1 ERNZ 264;Holley v Country Foods NZ Ltd unreported Goddard CJ, 24 April 1996, WEC 20/96;Northern Clerical etc Workers Union v Emery Custom Brokers NZ Ltd [1990] 1 NZILR 634;NZ Woollen Workers IUOW v Distinctive Knitwear NZ Ltd [1990] 2 NZILR 438;Wellington Clerical Workers' IUOW v Barraud & Abraham Ltd [1970] 70 BA 347;Wellington etc Clerical Workers IUOW v Greenwich [1983] ACJ 965;Western Excavating (ECC) Ltd v Sharp [1978] 1 All ER 713
Number of Pages 8
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