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Good human resource management is often limited to ensuring businesses act in ways that comply with legislation, and staff are treated with respect and dignity. However, human resource management is not just about compliance. It can also be used ensure that your business has the right number of staff, with
(The following is the information posted by the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment) The Employment Standards Legislation Bill includes a package of measures to prevent unfair employment practices in the New Zealand labour market, such as “zero-hour contracts”. The changes aim to retain flexibility where it is desired by
Don’t Panic And don’t ignore it! Sadly, there are a lot of no-win-no-fee lawyers who understand that for employers, personal grievance claims often come down to a fiscal decision. It may be cheaper to pay money to an ex-employee, than defend a claim. At any point during the personal grievance
The Health and Safety at Work Act (HSW Act) comes into effect on 4 April 2016 The aim of the new Health and Safety at Work Act (HSW Act) is to reduce New Zealand’s workplace injury and death toll by 25 per cent by 2020. Our current track record is
“its easier to engage them as contractors than to direct employ them as staff”… It’s a common catch cry, but it is not reality. Whatever you have in writing can be overturned by the courts and you can become liable for the tax grossed up on what you have paid
A company was faced with the horrible decisions to downsize. Using the HRtoolkit tools, they were working through a consultation process to make this happen. One of the roles that was proposed as redundant was the apprentice because they didn’t have enough qualified tradesmen to meet his training needs. They
CASE STUDY An employee had only been employed for about four months, but after a disciplinary investigation using the the HRtoolkit disciplinary investigation tools, the employee was found guilty of stealing an iPod and dismissed. There was, of course, suspicion that he had stolen a lot more. As part of
CASE STUDY “I’m being bullied”, it’s a catch cry which strikes fear into the hearts of all employers. And with good reason. In New Zealand, an employee only has to show one instance of bullying to make a successful claim against you, and it is the feelings of the victim
CASE STUDY We got a phone call from an employee whose new Australian boss had called to say “I hear your husband is working for a competitor, pack your bags, and p$%&** off”. Just to be clear, we are not paraphrasing! After we had pealed the employee off the ceiling,
CASE STUDY An interior design company had had three administrators in the space of two years. Each of these women took three months to come up to speed, so that was nine months out of nine years when they were not fully productive (at $40K salary that’s $30K out of
