[2016] NZEmpC 177 Go Bus Transport Ltd v Hellyer [pdf, 421 KB]
...had doubts about the dishonesty of these other employees, and gave them the benefit of those doubts: its assessment was that their cases were not open and shut cases, to use Go Bus’s terminology. [45] Some of the relevance of the employer’s statements about Mr Hellyer’s union involvement related to an issue that was not ever in contention: that was his awareness at the relevant time that employees’ families could no longer travel free on buses. However, I have concluded th...