[2015] NZEmpC 214 Goel v Director-General for Primary Industries [pdf, 135 KB]
...Ministerial Coordinator in the Ministerial and Official Correspondence Team. His role involved coordinating responses to incoming Ministerial and official correspondence. It included responsibility for formatting and proof-reading MPI responses to formal requests for information under the Official Information Act. On 13 December 2012, Mr Goel was suspended from his employment; principally for failing to follow what MPI claimed was a lawful and reasonable instruction regardi...