Changes to New Zealand Employment Law are coming thick and fast since the pandemic landed within our borders. Now is a great time to familiarise yourself and get ahead of the changes.
John Anthony13:17, May 28 2021
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Harjit Dheil’s application was filed to the High Court in Auckland.
The High Court has allowed a businessman convicted of blackmailing a worker with sexual assault allegations to run companies again. He was sentenced to 10 months’ home detention. The Companies Act prohibits someone from managing companies if they are convicted of blackmail or other crimes involving dishonesty.
READ MORE: In October 2020, Dheil applied to the High Court seeking permission to direct, manage and promote two Auckland home building companies, DDL Homes Central and DDL Homes South. DDL Homes Central has almost 60 staff and is held in his wife’s name, a High Court judgment said.
Bryant started work as a plasterer at Infinite Building Solutions in October 2018.
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Infinite Buildings Solutions has been ordered to pay a former plasterer $19,540 for unjustified dismissal, the second case against the Napier renovations company in less than a month. (File photo) His employment agreement provided for a minimum of 44 hours of work a week but at the time that he started his job his wife was ill and going through chemotherapy. The two sides agreed that initially he would not be required to work the full 44 hours. When Bryant returned to work after his wife’s recovery and just before Easter 2019, he was asked to go to Burns’ office.
Leave to appeal was granted based on the question of whether the minimum wage is payable for all of a worker’s agreed contracted hours of work, in the absence of sickness, default or accident; or whether it was lawful to make deductions from wages for lost time not worked at the employer’s direction. On March 23, the day the Covid-19 level 4 lockdown was announced, the workers were employed by Gate on the minimum wage for a minimum 40-hour week. After the company partly shut down its operations during the lockdown, Gate did not need some employees to work. Gate agreed to pay those employees 80 per cent of their normal wages, provided it got the wage subsidy, which it did receive.