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Wednesday 2 October 2002
The sticky issue of costs
"You can't always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes, you just mind find,
You get what you need."
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Related topics: Employment
Monday 30 September 2002
A case for disciplinary action
Neasa MacErlean and Julie Middleton advise what to do if you're in line for a telling off.</>
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Related topics: Employment
Wednesday 18 September 2002
The great cost in justice
When we read newspaper articles about employment law cases, our first thoughts are usually directed at the outcome of the case - and also its potential significance for other cases. One of the issues that is often forgotten, however, is the question of cost. Does justice come at a price?
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Related topics: Employment
Wednesday 4 September 2002
There's nothing quite like a kick in the teeth
Our experience of the Employment Relations Act has taught us that sitting down and talking through our problems really does help us solve them. 90% of all employment problems go no further than mediation.
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Related topics: Employment
Wednesday 21 August 2002
Employment Court revisits the employee/contractor conundrum
I have a distinct memory of the image of Marlon Brando in the Godfather informing various members of his "family" that he wished to "take a contract out" on a particular individual.
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Related topics: Employment
Wednesday 7 August 2002
How the Employment Court gets the right result
Alfred Hitchcock will be remembered as the master of suspense - an old fashioned director who was able to electrify mysterious and eerie crime stories.
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Related topics: Employment
Wednesday 24 July 2002
Making sure your employee has a right to be heard
For the most part, you would think that kangaroos were fairly innocuous animals. Apart from lending their image to a popular brand of cornflakes - and a favourite television show of the 1970s - for the most part kangaroos seem to lead lives which are quite innocent, and unconnected with our own.
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Related topics: Employment
Thursday 18 July 2002
Sports have grounds for concern over workplace law
In perhaps what is a favourable reflection upon the state of our society, the phrase "sporting tragedy" has a very limited meaning in New Zealand.
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Related topics: Hotels, Tourism and Sports, Employment
