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Timmins v Aratuna Freighters Ltd
H Doyle [Employment Relations Authority - Christchurch]
- Summary:
- UNJUSTIFIED DISMISSAL - Serious misconduct - At interview, applicant disclosed was on parole from term of imprisonment for assault – No deliberate concealment of nature of assault – Applicant off…
- Result:
- Application granted ; Reimbursement of lost wages ($9,795.50)(13 weeks) ; Compensation for humiliation etc ($5,000) ; Recovery of wages ($425) ; Interest on unpaid wages (8.5 percent) ; Costs reserved
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Bowbyes v Vango Ltd
J Scott [Employment Relations Authority - Auckland]
- Summary:
- JURISDICTION - Whether applicant was employee - No written agreement - Applicant alleged parties agreed he would have seven percent shareholding in respondent which would rise to 50 percent when…
- Result:
- Application dismissed ; Costs reserved
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Thomson v The Farmers' Trading Company Ltd
V Campbell [Employment Relations Authority - Auckland]
- Summary:
- UNJUSTIFIED DISMISSAL - Serious misconduct - Unauthorised possession of company property - Credibility finding in favour of respondent - Two previous warnings (one relating to unauthorised possession of property) -…
- Result:
- Application dismissed ; Costs reserved
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Fox v General Distributors Ltd
A Dumbleton [Employment Relations Authority - Auckland]
- Summary:
- COSTS - Unsuccessful personal grievance - 1ï¾½ day investigation meeting - Respondent sought contribution of $4,500 to costs - Some weight given to delays caused by applicant's management of his…
- Result:
- Costs in favour of the respondent ($2,800)
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Scott v Chief Executive, Department of Corrections
D Asher [Employment Relations Authority - Wellington]
- Summary:
- RAISING OF PERSONAL GRIEVANCE - Whether grievance raised within 90 days - In email and letter applicant raised grievance within 90 day period about alleged requirement for her to do…
- Result:
- Application dismissed ; Costs reserved
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Henning (Labour Inspector) v Butler
J Crichton [Employment Relations Authority - Christchurch]
- Summary:
- COMPLIANCE ORDER - Compliance with demand notice sought - No objection to demand notice - No appearance for respondent - Satisfied that demand notice was properly served on respondent -…
- Result:
- Compliance ordered ; Costs to lie where they fall
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Liddell and Ors v Manifest Manufacturing Services Ltd
D King [Employment Relations Authority - Auckland]
- Summary:
- ARREARS OF WAGES AND HOLIDAY PAY - No appearance by respondent - Action had been initiated to remove respondent from Companies Register - Authority satisfied applicants had not been paid…
- Result:
- Application granted ; Arrears of wages (NL)($4,901.50) ; (SD)($7,386.50) ; (YW)($3,243.25) ; (CH)($1,671.50) ; (QZ)($4,717.50) ; Arrears of holiday pay (NL)($294.09) ; (SD)($443.19) ; (YW)($194.59) ; (CH)($83.57) ; (QZ)($283.05) ; Filing fee in favour of applicants ($70)
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Busch v Prime Television New Zealand Ltd
Y S Oldfield [Employment Relations Authority - Auckland]
- Summary:
- UNJUSTIFIED DISMISSAL - Poor performance - Applicant dismissed after not meeting targets for television advertising sales - Warning for attitude and behaviour and allegedly final warning for attitude and performance…
- Result:
- Application granted ; Compensation for humiliation etc ($5,000) ; Costs reserved
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Douglas v McColl t/a Tim McColl Contracting Ltd
D Asher [Employment Relations Authority - Wellington]
- Summary:
- PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Applicant alleged had been subjected to sexual harassment and threatening, intimidating and abusive behaviour by respondent - In return, respondent made number of serious allegations about…
- Result:
- Application dismissed ; Costs in favour of respondent ($1,500)
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NZ Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union Inc and Ors v Carter Holt Harvey Ltd
D Asher [Employment Relations Authority - Wellington]
- Summary:
- UNJUSTIFIED DISADVANTAGE - Second applicants made redundant - Applicants alleged that respondent breached terms of collective employment agreement which gave second applicants re-employment preference - Clause in collective agreement provided…
- Result:
- Application granted ; Compliance ordered (M) ; Reimbursement of lost wages (M)(from date he should have been re-employed) ; Compensation for humiliation etc (B and M)($8,000)(per applicant) ; Costs reserved