Taumarunui bakery ordered to pay $90,000 for migrant exploitation
Source: Employment New Zealand
Husband and wife owners of The Bakehouse Café must pay $70,000 in penalties, plus $20,000 compensation to two employees, following a...
Can employers make employees take leave during alert levels 3 and 4?
Source: Employment New Zealand
If workers are not able to come into their usual place of work, employers are encouraged to ask individual workers to...
The cost of bullying in your workplace
Source: Employment New Zealand
One in four employees in New Zealand say that they have been bullied at work.
Bullying has a negative effect in people’s...
Liquor store pays over $97,000 to workers after Labour Inspectorate investigation
Source: Employment New Zealand
The Employment Relations Authority have issued a determination ordering SS & PK Jador Limited, trading as Clevedon Road Liquor in Papakura,...
Employers warned against charging recruitment costs to their workers
Source: Employment New Zealand
The Labour Inspectorate reminds employers that charging workers for recruitment-related costs is illegal.
This follows a case brought to the Employment Relations...
Labour Inspectors are visiting Hawke’s Bay apple orchards this week
Source: Employment New Zealand
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) Labour Inspectors are visiting Hawke’s Bay orchards this week.
The visits are to make sure...
Large groups of workers still paid below minimum wage
Source: Employment New Zealand
The Labour Inspectorate has found 136 businesses across Auckland and Northland that were paying workers below the minimum wage over the...
Government announces support to better protect migrants from exploitation
Source: Employment New Zealand
New measures have come into force on 1 July 2021. The changes are part of a wider Government initiative to combat...
Restaurant director liable for penalties after exploiting worker
Source: Employment New Zealand
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) has ordered Madhan Singh Bisht, director of Kiran Cuisine Limited, operating a restaurant in Auckland to...
Minimum sick leave entitlement proposed to increase from 2021
Source: Employment New Zealand
The Government has introduced the Holidays (Increasing Sick Leave) Amendment Bill to increase the minimum employee sick leave entitlement from 5...
Bereavement leave to cover miscarriage, stillbirth
Source: Employment New Zealand
Employees will soon have the right to take paid time off work in the unfortunate event of a miscarriage or stillbirth,...
COVID-19 vaccination and employment implications
Source: Employment New Zealand
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) will soon be updating businesses and workers with guidance about the upcoming COVID-19...
