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Some employers and employees deserve each other
There are rare occasions when you feel like saying “you two deserve each other” and one of these occasions involves an employee Mr Kumar and Mr Ajay Kumar Gaur, the director of two companies, for whom Mr Kumar worked. When appearing before the Employment Relations …
Shouting at the world on Facebook and Twitter
What you say on facebook or tweet may cost you your job. In March of 2010 Tania Dickinson, an employee of the Ministry of Social Development, described herself in a Facebook post as a “very expensive paperweight” who is “highly competent in the art of …
Zero Tolerance to Violence at Work
Many employers have a zero tolerance policy towards violence in the workplace and, while the law recognises this sloganised policy is admirable in principle, they have warned the devil is as always, in the detail. In Housham v Juken New Zealand Ltd, a case involving …