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1. [2024] NZSSAA 10 (5 September 2024) [pdf, 340 KB]

   ...backdated ACC entitlements (the ACC arrears). They related to the period from 17 March 2006 to 17 October 2018. She would also receive ongoing ACC support. [11.3] After some adjustments, the effective date when the Ministry would stop paying job seeker support, and XXXX would have ACC weekly compensation instead, was set as 17 March 2017. ACC reimbursed the Ministry for the job seeker support payments in the periods for which ACC provided backdated support. [11.4] The Minist...

2. Status hearings evaluation: New Zealand study of pre-trial hearings in criminal cases [pdf, 487 KB]

   ...package”, which contains a copy of all material on the police file6. This will generally include: • A three-page police summary of facts with a “caption sheet” (cover page which has a space for inserting the maximum penalty on conviction); • A job sheet (police record of investigation of an alleged offence); • A copy of a video interview transcript; • A victim impact statement; • The defendant’s criminal record. There should also be details of prosecution witnesses and, fo...

3. Hay v Dodds [pdf, 235 KB]

   CLAIM NO: 01917 UNDER The Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2002 IN THE MATTER of an adjudication BETWEEN JOHN CEDRIC HAY and MARJORY YOLANDE HAY Claimants AND ALISTAIR MURRAY DODDS trading as Dodds Design First Respondent AND MELVYN VINCENT LEE Second Respondent AND KRISTOPHER LEE SUNDE Third Respondent AND NORTH SHORE CITY COUNCIL Fourth Respondent DETERMINATION OF ADJUDICATOR (Dated 10 Novemb

4. [2019] NZEmpC 151 Zhang v Telco Asset Management Ltd [pdf, 537 KB]

   ...contribution.31 [61] Dealing with contribution, the Authority made several contested findings. First, it was found that, although a redundancy is regarded as a no-fault dismissal because an employee through no fault of their own is losing his or her job, in this case, Mr Zhang’s conduct had substantially contributed to the dismissal.32 [62] Second, the Authority accepted Mr Zhang was concerned that his position would be disestablished. But the nature of the allegations he made a...

5. [2024] NZEmpC 133 Gumbeze v The Chief Executive of Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children [pdf, 422 KB]

   ...and engagement with vulnerable children and families. [43] Accompanying this August 2017 letter were copies of the letter sent to Mr Gumbeze on 19 June 2017, a note or list of occupational-specific competencies for a senior practitioner, his job description, and a copy of the Ministry’s policy “The Oranga Tamariki Way”. Attached to this letter were summaries of client information about Baby M and Family K. [44] In this letter, Ms Dickson gave Mr Gumbeze her preliminary vi...

6. [2025] NZEmpC 69  Bread of Life Christian Church in Auckland v Chen [pdf, 431 KB]

   ...Fellowship Committee and the Human Resources Committee. [20] Under the terms of the Agreement, Pastor Chen was appointed as pastor of the Church for the period 2 September 2019 to 31 March 2022. His duties and responsibilities were detailed in a job description, and he was paid a salary of $43,056 per year. It is not disputed that the Trust paid Pastor Chen’s salary in accordance with the Agreement and remitted deductions (PAYE) to the Inland Revenue Department (IRD). [21] P...

7. [2011] NZEmpC 116 Pollett v Browns Real Estate Ltd [pdf, 81 KB]

   ...is granted. None has been raised by either side, except that the respondent says that Mr Pollett has failed to pay the costs awarded to it by the Authority as he is obliged to. Mr Pollett says he is impecunious as a result of having lost his job at Browns and having encountered difficulties in obtaining alternative real estate work since then. [15] Finally, the Court must make such assessment as it can of the merits of the proposed challenge. That is a relatively low threshold te...

8. [2012] NZEmpC 159 Q v W [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...alleges breaches of employment agreements and contracts. [14] Mr France submitted that the plaintiff’s attack on the defendant’s actions during the plaintiff’s employment was broad and involved numerous alleged incidents concerning her job, her terms of employment and her treatment by the defendant. He noted that the plaintiff alleges in her pleadings that the defendant has engaged in various unlawful actions against her and has breached various legislative obligations an...

9. [2015] NZSSAA 030, 4 May [pdf, 47 KB]

   ...night between 7.00 pm and 8.00 pm. 2 [5] At the time of their separation, applied for and was granted a Domestic Purposes Benefit – Sole Parent. The appellant was in full-time employment. In May 2014 he was made redundant from his job. He applied for a benefit to support himself. He was granted a benefit at the single rate on the basis that s 70B of the Social Security Act 1964 provides that only one parent can have the children taken into account in assessing the rate...

10. [2015] NZEmpC 22 Nisha v LSG Sky Chefs New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 102 KB]

    ...transfer of her employment under Part 6A of the Act, the plaintiff’s terms and conditions of employment with her former employer, PRI Flight Catering Limited (PRI), changed in several material respects. These included the description of her job, her hourly wage rate, and her service-related entitlements. [5] Upon transferring under Part 6A to the employment of the defendant, the plaintiff asserted her entitlement to those enhanced terms and conditions which she claims to have enj...