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The Group is made up of employer, worker and government representatives and is chaired by Gordon Anderson, a law professor at Victoria University with extensive experience in employment law. The revie...

In this context, a person affected by domestic violence means a person who is one or both of the following: a person against whom any other person is inflicting, or has inflicted, domestic violence, a...

The Government committed to introducing statutory support and legal rights for dependent contractors who are effectively workers under the control of an employer but who do not receive the legal prote...

This amounts to some level of re-establishment of the old award system – by stealth over time, if not immediately.  The spectre of demarcation disputes is there, with the group charged with “determini...

For some time the concept of triangular employment has been an issue.  In the recent case of Prasad v LSG Skychefs [2017] NZEmpC 150, to which the current legislation applied, the Court found the empl...

Most of the proposed changes simply roll back changes made by the National Government in 2015. Some of the changes apply from the day after the date of Royal Assent and so will be in force before the ...