Builder gets compensation after disgraceful treatment by employer
Builder gets compensation after disgraceful treatment by employer Wed, 12 May 2021, 2:05PM
A construction company has to compensate a builder close to $45,000 after falsely telling him he was being investigated by ACC and firing him.
The actions of Hawke s Bay company, Infinite Building Solutions (IBS), owned by Richard Stanley Burns, have been labelled as disgraceful by the Employment Relations Authority, which investigated the unjustified dismissal case.
Builder Sidney Eastham was awarded a total of $43,896 for lost and incorrectly deducted wages, costs, and hurt and humiliation for the company s treatment of him.
On February 24, 2020, Eastham fell from scaffolding on a worksite and suffered injuries to his head, back, and arm.
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A woman who lost her job after Covid-19 border restrictions were put in place has won $8000 in compensation, after the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) ruled she was unjustifiably dismissed.
The Employment Relations Authority said the company running the Pelorus mail boat failed to consult properly over job losses resulting from Covid-19.
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Elisabeth Siegmund was working as a deckhand on Marlborough Tour Company s Pelorus mail boat when the pandemic hit.
She started the job in October 2019 and was hired for the duration of the summer season, until the end of May 2020.
But when the government announced a ban on cruise ship visits and the requirement for everyone arriving in the country to self-isolate for 14 days, the tour company told its employees there would likely be an impact on staffing.