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1. 2022 NZPSPLA 035.pdf [pdf, 97 KB]

   ...to the incident in April. He thinks that some people in his wider family and/or acquaintance group have some form of association with gangs, but he is not sure how much as he has nothing to do with it. [7] MA says he was stood down from his job because of the charges and then when his COA was suspended he could no longer get security work. He has therefore not had a job and has faced considerable uncertainty up until now which has been very stressful. He was offered a job but knew...

2. OIA Ex-prisoner employment [pdf, 212 KB]

   ...additional Police vetting may be required. Any formal offer of employment made in writing is subject to the pre-employment checks, including a criminal record check. 2. Does the MoJ allow ex-prisoners in third party companies to work on external jobs/contracts for it? 2a. If there are restrictions to the capacity/types of job - what are they? 2b. If the MoJ don’t allow this, why? 2c. How does the MoJ monitor the staff of third party companies who may be working on the MoJ contrac...

3. 2023 NZPSPLA 058 [pdf, 90 KB]

   ...that Mr Mulock-Houwer does not hold the necessary training and experience to hold a licence as a security consultant and security technician. Concerns were also raised by the complainant as to Mr Mulock-Houwer’s workmanship on one of the security jobs he completed without a licence. [4] Mr Mulock-Houwer contests the assessment of his workmanship on the security job. I accept that some of the complainant’s criticisms of this job was not Mr Mulock-Houwer’s responsibility. I also...

4. DP v VK Ltd [2014] NZDT 753 (28 November 2014) [pdf, 93 KB]

   ...he did the work as instructed to by CC. The first he heard about authority or otherwise was when he received an abusive call from BB in which he said he would not be paying as he had not authorised the work as there was no Order number for the job and in any event it was a poor job. [15] BB says that CC did not have actual authority to contract with someone in this way. He says that CC’s employment contract is silent on the matter of what sorts of contracts he was able to agree...

5. [2021] NZEmpC 13 Edwards v Recreational Services Ltd [pdf, 206 KB]

   ...employed; Recreational Services argued that he was only ever a casual employee. A decision about the nature of his employment was determinative of most of his claims.3 [3] According to the Authority’s determination, Mr Edwards applied for a job with Recreational Services as a lawn mower operator, in a position of fixed duration.4 Having applied for that job, he was offered another job weed spraying. Work began on 26 September 2016 and his employment ended on 7 December 2016 fol...

6. [2023] NZEmpC 70 Pietras v Vegar [pdf, 200 KB]

   ...Mr Jacob Pietras is represented by counsel, Mr Joshua Pietras. Mr Pietras says he undertook 6 hours of work for Ms Vegar, but was not paid [3] In June 2020, Mr Pietras was a university student looking for extra income. [4] He saw a job advertised on the Student Job Search website. The job was for a fixed term role, collecting signatures for a parliamentary petition entitled “Stop Trading New Zealand Away”. [5] The position was advertised as being for approximate...

7. ED Ltd v TQ Ltd [2023] NZDT 312 (27 July 2023) [pdf, 221 KB]

   ...to building delays ED Ltd was not ready to proceed until early January 2023 at which point they contacted TQ Ltd and were advised that, due to price inflation over the long period of delay and changes in availability of materials, the pricing of the job would increase to $34,949.40+GST. ED Ltd was of the view that TQ Ltd was obliged to perform the contract at the quoted price and gave TQ Ltd an opportunity to proceed on that basis. 3. TQ Ltd declined to proceed and ED Ltd proposed repay...

8. [2020] NZSSAA 6 (28 April 2020) [pdf, 101 KB]

   ...Appearances The appellant in person R Signal, agent for the Ministry of Social Development DECISION Background [1] XXXX (“the appellant”) appeals the decision by the Ministry of Social Development (the Ministry) to stop his Job Seeker Support (“JSS”) payments on 16 May 2017. This decision was reviewed and upheld by a Benefits Review Committee on 20 November 2018. [2] The appellant is a 57-year-old single man with no dependent children. He has been grant...

9. XG v B Ltd & EH [2024] NZDT 733 (21 September 2024) [pdf, 114 KB]

   ...reasonable care and skill; b. a breach of reasonable care and skill is also evident in assessing the neatness of asphalt edging against other surfaces, and in the uniformity of compacting in some areas. However relative to the whole job, this is a finding which affects some areas only. I do not accept a finding of a breach of reasonable care and skill across the whole job, or across a substantial enough proportion of the job to require removal and replacement,...

10. [2022] NZACC 196 – Curgenven v ACC (6 October 2022) [pdf, 216 KB]

    ...The Corporation based her compensation on an Earnings Certificate dated 15 July 1994 associated with Ms Curgenven’s work for a café called “A Taste of Kapiti”, owned by her father. Ms Curgenven had been working 25 hours per week in this job. [5] Between 1994 and 10 January 1996, weekly compensation was paid. It then ceased, as Ms Curgenven returned to study and later undertook further work. [6] On 29 May 2009, the Corporation issued a decision declining an application for...