STUFF At a meeting on Friday, the board voted 3-1 to keep the name. Two of the board members, city councillors Mike Davidson and Pauline Cotter, were absent. Board chair Emma Norrish said her reasoning for keeping the name was “quite simple really”, saying the name of the lane was not the same as the disgraced liquor baron.
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Earthworks at 480 Hills Rd – a property linked to businessman Harjit Singh. “The name of the lane is, to the general public, not associated with him unless people delve into the history,” she said. Norrish worried about the precedent the board could set if it revoked the name.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged it was a big step.
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A new government Health Order covers private sector staff in jobs seen as too high risk to be left unprotected.
It also now includes aviation security staff working in managed isolation hotels. It is an extraordinary step to mandate and to tell someone who may for instance be employed by a private sector employer, that they will not be able to work in their job unless they re vaccinated. That is a very big step, Ardern said.
She argued that, as the rate of vaccine take-up for those border facing jobs is not high enough, the government was left with little choice but to make it compulsory.
Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 12:43 pm
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) has ordered
Madhan Singh Bisht, director of Kiran Cuisine Limited,
operating a restaurant in Auckland to pay full arrears of
$75,026.18 in unpaid minimum wage, leave, and holiday pay to
a former employee, as well as a further $50,000 in
penalties.
The Labour Inspectorate took the case to
the ERA following a complaint from a former employee who
worked at the restaurant as a chef.
The
Inspectorate’s investigation found the employee
consistently worked an average of between 60 and 70 hours
each week over approximately three years of employment,
despite being contracted and paid for up to 36 hours
Press Release – Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) has ordered Madhan Singh Bisht, director of Kiran Cuisine Limited, operating a restaurant in Auckland to pay full arrears of $75,026.18 in unpaid minimum wage, leave, and holiday pay to a former employee, …
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) has ordered Madhan Singh Bisht, director of Kiran Cuisine Limited, operating a restaurant in Auckland to pay full arrears of $75,026.18 in unpaid minimum wage, leave, and holiday pay to a former employee, as well as a further $50,000 in penalties.
The Labour Inspectorate took the case to the ERA following a complaint from a former employee who worked at the restaurant as a chef.