Employment Relations Authority

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.