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Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 12:26 pm
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) have issued a
determination ordering SS & PK Jador Limited, trading as
Clevedon Road Liquor in Papakura, to pay penalties of
$50,000 for breaching minimum employment standards. The
liquor store’s director, Satnam Singh Jador, is also
personally liable for $20,000 of penalties as a person
involved in these breaches.
After proceedings were
initiated in the ERA, the company repaid $97,361.66 to four
employees after accepting minimum wage, premium and holiday
arrears were owed. The employer had kept two sets of records
- one to show the real/actual hours worked and another set
to show hours worked as per the employment
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 11:36 am
Expect experiments and explosions as the science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics festival STEMFest
returns, promising an even bigger and better event for
2021.
The inaugural Tauranga STEM Festival (STEMFest)
in 2019 attracted 3,500 visitors from across New Zealand.
The event also scooped the TECT Community Awards for Event
Excellence for its innovation and creativity.
Now,
after being cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
the free, family-friendly festival returns on Sunday 3
October 2021, in Tauranga’s Durham Street.
STEMFest
organiser, registered charity STEM Wana Trust, hopes to
attract 10,000 visitors in 2021 in its aim to engage and
inspire a new generation of scientists, technologists,
Minister of Transport
To
further encourage the uptake of electric vehicles to reduce
emissions, the Government has extended the Road User Charges
(RUC) exemption for light electric vehicles saving Kiwis
around $800 a year, Transport Minister Michael Wood
announced today.
Electric vehicles are exempt from
paying road user charges that normally apply to vehicles
that don’t pay for petrol at the pump. This exemption has
been extended until 31 March 2024 as part of the Government’s
Clean Car Package.
“Our Government is continuing
to take action to tackle transport emissions to meet our
2050 carbon neutral target – part of this is helping Kiwis
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 1:06 pm
Jan Dawson CNZM, Chair of the Board of Westpac New
Zealand, will retire on 1 October 2021 and will be replaced
as Chair by current director Pip Greenwood.
Ms Dawson
joined the Board as a director in July 2011 and was
appointed Chair in February 2015.
She said it had been
a privilege to lead the Board through a period of change in
the banking industry which included major regulatory changes
and the financial impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic.
“I’m proud to have worked with a team of
directors and senior management focussed on delivering great
financial outcomes for our customers and also contributing