[2016] NZEmpC 138 AFFCO NZ Ltd v The NZ Meatworkers and Related Trades Union Inc [pdf, 81 KB]
...it is particularly appropriate that those applications be adjourned for a further attempt to be made to obtain a collective agreement. [11] I am not taking into account the ongoing litigation between the parties in this Court, in the Court of Appeal, and very soon in the Supreme Court, as a ground for adjourning the fixture: the direction to mediation is a good and sufficient ground for doing so. [12] Unfortunately, because of the length of the fixture, the desirability of counse...