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Stuff Former Smiths City staff who were required to attend unpaid meetings will be paid in full for their time after a compromise was reached. All payments were expected to be made by the middle of August. For at least 15 years, every Smiths City store in the country held a meeting of sales staff for 15 minutes every morning, covering topics ranging from sales targets to promotions. Staff were not paid for the meetings and the time was not recorded as hours worked, resulting in some staff not receiving the minimum wage once the extra 15 minutes was taken into account. The company argued the meetings were not compulsory and no disciplinary action was taken against staff for not attending them, but the court found otherwise. Chief Judge Christina Inglis said "the expectation to attend, and pressure placed on staff to do so, was direct and forceful.”
Joseph Johnson/Stuff Dr Alistair Humphrey, centre, was a medical officer of health in Canterbury for about 20 years before being fired last year. It would say he was resigning to pursue other professional projects and for 20 years he had served the CDHB and the Canterbury community well. He could not elaborate on the settlement, but the reinstatement decision should be read as the background to the settlement. “Obviously that decision influenced the legal teams on both sides,” he said. “I’ve resigned and there are always conditions.” His new role of chair of the New Zealand Medical Association would be one of his main projects, he said.
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Canterbury's long-standing medical officer of health says battle lines have been drawn after he was not allowed to return to work. A court order last month temporarily reinstated him to the role, ahead of a full court hearing next month. Dr Alistair Humphrey. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King Dr Alistair Humphrey was a medical officer of health from 2000 until he was dismissed by the Canterbury DHB for incompatibility in October 2020. Humphrey is challenging his dismissal at the Employment Court, which last month ordered that he be temporarily put back in his role until a decision is made on his substantive claim against the DHB.
How many readers just simply open emails and attachments regardless of who sent them to see what they have to say? And if you are an employee doing this, what liability do you have? And if you are breaching a company policy when you do this, surely your position is worse? Any unfortunate employee who opens an email and attachment that results in the infection of their employer’s systems will probably feel desolate, especially if the damage is extensive. Last week we were told the Waikato District Health Board was thrown into chaos because of a cyber-attack on its IT systems. The attacker demanded the payment of a ransom.
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.
Chloe Ranford/Stuff Smiths City still owes thousands to former employees for unpaid meetings. Staff were not paid for the meetings and the time was not recorded as hours worked, resulting in some staff not receiving the minimum wage once the extra 15 minutes was taken into account. The company argued the meetings were not compulsory and no disciplinary action was taken against staff for not attending them, but the court found otherwise. Chief Judge Christina Inglis said "the expectation to attend, and pressure placed on staff to do so, was direct and forceful.” If the 101 former employees make themselves known to receivers, they will be paid.
Canterbury medical officer of health Alistair Humphrey has his job back, six months after he was sacked for being unmanageable and alienating colleagues.
In her decision released on Friday, Judge Christina Inglis said Humphrey had a clearly arguable case for permanent reinstatement and that the potential impact on his colleagues by interim reinstatement could be managed. She said the CDHB’s case was hurt by evidence the employment relationship was not irreparable when Humphrey was sacked. Humphrey told Stuff on Friday he was very pleased with the decision but had been advised to say no more. “The decision speaks for itself,” he said. The CDHB declined to comment. John Kirk-Anderson/Stuff Humphrey, left, was difficult to manage, according to the CDHB. CDHB submissions filed for last week’s reinstatement hearing alleged Humphrey had a longstanding tendency of being hostile and confrontational, especially with senior colleagues in his public health team.