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1. Juneja v Kumar [2016] NZIACDT 13 (18 March 2016) [pdf, 116 KB]

   ...which the complaint is based are: [1.1] The complainant went to Mr Kumar’s practice to get advice on applying for a work visa. [1.2] An unlicensed person generally provided the services. [1.3] Mr Kumar provided advice as to the requirements for a job offer that would meet the criteria for applying for a work visa. He provided incorrect advice, and then lodged the application with non-complying documentation; and information showing the complainant had worked outside of the conditions...

2. [2016] NZSSAA 082 (29 August 2016) [pdf, 128 KB]

   ...Security Act 1964. Background [2] The appellant is aged XX years. She is in receipt of Supported Living Payment (formerly Invalid’s Benefit). On 16 February 2015, the appellant made a request that any 2 income she earned from a job which she had commenced, be exempt when calculating her entitlement to benefit, pursuant to the provisions of s 66A of the Social Security Act 1964. [3] The appellant’s application that her income be exempt from being taken into account...

3. [2015] NZEmpC 82 Smith Crane and Construction Ltd v Hall [pdf, 226 KB]

   ...that all staff were hired according to the same agreement. The terms of the company’s standard agreement were not discussed at the time. [16] On 6 September 2013, Mr Badderly sent an email to Mr Hall. The subject of the email was “Job Offer”. In that email he said he hoped the attached offer was “more palatable”, and that he wished to have confirmation by return. He then said that also attached was a copy of the “standard individual employment contracts (s...

4. INZ (Calder) v Cleland [2019] NZIACDT 25 (3 May 2019) [pdf, 252 KB]

   ...(the Act). Complaints have been upheld against Johan 3 Hendrik Adriaan Van Zyl and Lynn Niland in respect of their business relationships with Mr Porteous and IPS before the relationship with Mr Cleland.1 [8] As noted above, IPS/BNAC sources jobs in New Zealand for Philippine workers with the adviser, in this case Mr Cleland, supposedly then being responsible for providing immigration services. None of the staff of IPS/BNAC are licenced immigration advisers. [9] The complai...

5. Neemia v International Waste Ltd [2021] NZHRRT 32 [pdf, 182 KB]

   ...he wanted to make a complaint about Mr James, but no disciplinary action was taken against Mr James. [18.3] That during the meeting with Ms Shandil she said to Mr Neemia that as he was over 60 years of age, it would be hard for him to find another job. 4 [18.4] Later that day Mr James gave him a letter advising of the disciplinary investigation for having both doors open in the truck lobby and threatened him, saying “Oh Sam, see who is going to be the first to walk out.” [19]...

6. [2019] NZSSAA 20 (11 March 2019) [pdf, 149 KB]

   ...2017 to 24 December 2017. The appellant has repaid $95 of this amount and the balance is $542.35. The Ministry established the overpayment because it said that during the relevant period the appellant earned over the income limit for the rate of Jobseeker Support that she was receiving at the time. [2] The appellant was a 21-year-old student when she was diagnosed with depression in 2012. She moved home to live with family in Hamilton. At the end of 2014, she returned to Auckl...

7. HZ v X Ltd [2023] NZDT 21 (14 March 2023) [pdf, 184 KB]

   ...promises and becomes binding when the parties agree on clear and certain terms. A contract may be written or verbal or a combination of both. 4. NG says that he visited HZ and his wife B at their house on 12 September 2022 to have a look at the job. NG met B briefly and then had a discussion about the job while walking up and down the deck with HZ. B was in the kitchen making a cup of tea. The work was substantial and complicated because it included steps and a balustrade. The price pro...

8. MQ v X Ltd & N Ltd [2024] NZDT 72 (19 February 2024) [pdf, 206 KB]

   ...time he retrieved the roof it had been hit by other vehicles and it was badly damaged. 7. Mr A delivered the [vehicle] and the roof to X Ltd’s workshop. 8. X Ltd had the vehicle for a prolonged period. MQ was dissatisfied with progress on the job, and with X Ltd’s communication. He travelled to X Ltd’s workshop and retrieved the vehicle. 9. When he collected it, he noted that the open roof was not covered. He submitted that the interior of the vehicle was extremely dusty an...

9. U Ltd v G Ltd [2024] NZDT 480 (19 April 2024) [pdf, 101 KB]

   ...to put the box together with the materials supplied and to install it on the subframe that was already made. 11. She emphasised that G Ltd are not coachbuilders and that she had made it very clear to UT, director of U Ltd, before taking on the job that G Ltd had never built a truck before. At the time the work for U Ltd was done, she says G Ltd was a horse float manufacturer and that none of its work required engineering certification1. She said LT was a professional coach builder wh...

10. [2020] NZEmpC 88 123 Casino Ltd t/a 123 Palm Bar & Restaurant & Function Centre v Zuo [pdf, 266 KB]

    ...29 November 2019 (Heard at Auckland) Appearances: M Lewis, counsel for plaintiff M Moncur, advocate for defendant Judgment: 19 June 2020 JUDGMENT OF JUDGE K G SMITH [1] In early August 2017 Qi Zuo applied for a job as a chef at 123 Casino Ltd, trading as 123 Palm Bar & Restaurant & Function Centre. By agreement she completed an observation period in Palm Bar’s kitchen followed by four days of a work trial conducted on 16–19 August 2017....