Asbestos, over the years a killer of many workers, has hit the headlines again as information emerges that workers involved in the demolition and repair of buildings in Christchurch have been exposed to it. Why has this happened? Wasn’t the Pike River mine disaster enough …

In a decision dated 18 October 2010 the Employment Relations Authority found that Antoinette Cuthill-Coutts, an employment advocate with Employment Disputes Ltd, a company that is otherwise known as 0800SACKED, had been unjustifiably constructively dismissed. Of equal significance the Authority declared that it had no …

Susan Frost claimed she was unjustifiably dismissed by her employer Cullen’s Fruit and Vege Limited, better known to Nelson locals as the Victory Fruit and Veg Shop and she was right; but her win came at a cost because the Employment Relations Authority decided that …