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Employment Relations Authority

SouthlandJune 6

Awarded $8000 plus lost income

A Southland man has been awarded five months' lost income and $8000 compensation after the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) found he was unjustifiably dismissed in May last year.
SouthlandMay 23

Sacked principal's case goes to ERA

Sacked Invercargill principal Marlene Campbell will have her case for unjustified dismissal heard by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) next week.
DunedinDecember 10

Bullying claims rejected

A University of Otago senior manager has denied accusations of bullying and says the former staff member suing the university for unfair dismissal was ''very rude'' to other staff.
North OtagoNovember 15

ERA not convinced farm worker dismissed

Claims from an Oamaru farm worker that he had been unjustifiably sacked from his job have been rejected because the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) was not convinced the man had been dismissed at all.
DunedinJuly 26

Senior doctors oppose Bill

The senior doctors' union is opposing proposed labour law changes it fears could create a more fractious industrial relations environment.
DunedinJuly 12

Unfair dismissal cases rising here

Dunedin employment law specialists say the slow rise in unfair dismissal cases being brought to Otago lawyers for mediation does not appear to be abating, despite the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) recording a dramatic decline in figures nationally.
DunedinMay 31

Penalty to be paid to trust

The Employment Relations Authority has directed that a former employee of the Work Opportunities Trust pay a $1500 penalty to the Dunedin-based trust, after breaching part of an earlier settlement.
DunedinMarch 8

Pact to appeal ERA finding on action

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.
South OtagoJanuary 17

Employment discord claims dismissed

A claim by two South Otago farmers their former employee was overpaid has been dismissed by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA).
DunedinJanuary 9

Dismissal over firewood not unjustified

A worker for Dunedin mental health provider Pact did not have a personal grievance for unjustified dismissal, the Employment Relations Authority has found.
QueenstownOctober 3

ERA rejects costs claim

The Employment Relations Authority has determined there is "no basis" for a former Lakes District Museum employee to claim $1940.72 in expenses.
North OtagoSeptember 21

Ordered to pay bonuses

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.
NewsMay 4

More unfair dismissal cases seen by lawyers

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.
North OtagoApril 13

Dairy couple's claim not upheld

A couple's claim to the Employment Relations Authority of constructive dismissal has failed, with the authority saying the circumstances did not stack up.
DunedinJanuary 28

Conservator unjustifiably dismissed

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.
Conservator unjustifiably dismissed
Conservator unjustifiably dismissed
DunedinDecember 18

Dunedin cleaner awarded $11,000

The Employment Relations Authority has awarded a Dunedin cleaner $10,983.80 for her unjustified dismissal.
Central OtagoAugust 29

Vine-Tech told to pay dismissed employees

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.
DunedinJuly 3

Sacked employee awarded costs

Sandblasting Specialists Otago Ltd has been ordered by the Employment Relations Authority to pay former employee Paul Newton $1315.
DunedinJune 4

Budget lists case on sleepovers as fiscal risk for the Crown

While millions of dollars of claims relating to sleepover pay have yet to be determined, the Government has listed the issue as an unquantified risk in this year's Budget.
NationalMay 5

Customs officers sacked for leaking sensitive information

Two Customs officers who were sacked for allegedly leaking sensitive information to a newspaper have been denied temporary reinstatement to their jobs by the Employment Relations Authority.