Employment Relations Authority

Mental health and intellectual disability services provider Pact says it will appeal an Employment Relations Authority finding that it misled negotiators and breached the collective agreement in the 2011 bargaining round.

A claim by two South Otago farmers their former employee was overpaid has been dismissed by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA).

A worker for Dunedin mental health provider Pact did not have a personal grievance for unjustified dismissal, the Employment Relations Authority has found.

The Employment Relations Authority has determined there is "no basis" for a former Lakes District Museum employee to claim $1940.72 in expenses.

The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) this week ordered a Timaru farm machinery sales company to pay a former employee more than $12,000 in unpaid bonuses.

Tough economic times are causing a rise in the number of unfair dismissal cases being brought to Otago lawyers for mediation representation, despite the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) recording a decline.

A couple's claim to the Employment Relations Authority of constructive dismissal has failed, with the authority saying the circumstances did not stack up.

A senior Otago Settlers Museum conservator who was sacked last year for serious misconduct has successfully taken a personal grievance against the Dunedin City Council, which has been ordered to pay him $34,446.

The Employment Relations Authority has awarded a Dunedin cleaner $10,983.80 for her unjustified dismissal.

Vine-Tech Contracting Ltd, of Cromwell, has been ordered by the Employment Relations Authority to pay over $15,000 to two former employees after failing to justify their being made redundant.