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1. [2025] NZIACDT 01 – ZJ v Liu (13 January 2025) [pdf, 158 KB]

   ...employment and a visa. The director of the “company”, IX, was based in New Zealand. He was told by the director that work would be arranged. It was not. He never met the employer. The complainant did not even know the employer’s name or the job. He arranged work himself for two weeks, cleaning and removing rubbish at different construction sites. [14] According to the complainant, he had never signed a professional services agreement with Mr Liu. [15] The Authority r...

2. Arms Act rewrite summary version of the discussion document – Easy Read [pdf, 2.4 MB]

   ...money for handing in your firearms. Buy-back regimes happen when the law changes to say you can no longer own a type of firearm. 26 You can write your answer in the box below. Do you think the Arms Act does a good job of saying what a firearm is? 27 The Arms Act has different rules for different kinds of: • firearms • things like ammunition. This is because some things have more risk. Here risk...

3. [2025] NZIACDT 02 TX v Liu (13 January 2025) [pdf, 241 KB]

   ...employment and a visa. The director of the “company”, IX, was based in New Zealand. He was told by the director that work would be arranged. It was not. He never met the employer. The complainant did not even know the employer’s name or the job. He was able to find work himself on construction sites cleaning and removing rubbish. [14] According to the complainant, he had never signed a professional services agreement with Mr Liu. [15] The Authority requested Mr Liu...

4. [2025] NZIACDT 03 IX v Liu (14 January 2025) [pdf, 240 KB]

   ...employment and a visa. The director of the “company”, JX, was based in New Zealand. He was told by the director that work would be arranged. It was not. He never met the employer. The complainant did not even know the employer’s name or the job. [14] According to the complainant, he had never signed a professional services agreement with Mr Liu. [15] The Authority requested Mr Liu’s file. It was provided by Mr Liu on 1 November 2023, along with a narrative of the s...

5. [2024] NZIACDT 31 – HG v Liu (16 December 2024) [pdf, 158 KB]

   ...16,666) for employment and a visa. The director of the “company”, IX, was based in New Zealand. He was told by the director that work would be arranged. It was not. He never met the employer. He did not even know the employer’s name or the job. [15] According to the complainant, he had never signed a professional services agreement with Mr Liu. [16] The Authority requested Mr Liu’s file. It was provided by Mr Liu on 16 October 2023, along with a narrative of the st...

6. [2025] NZIACDT 47 - Labour Insp.Gardiner v Jaspal (11 September 2025) [pdf, 221 KB]

   ...with Mr Jaspal that he would employ him. [10] Mr Jaspal, or perhaps his staff, undertook verification of the client’s education qualifications and employment history. [11] On 7 December 2022, Mr Jaspal sent an email to the client attaching a job offer as a restaurant manager, an employment agreement and an invoice. The invoice was for INR 442,500 (excluding Immigration NZ’s fee of NZD 760 payable by the client): Documentation and verification (payable before 10/12/2022) INR...

7. Otago Standards Committee v Cottrell [2024] NZLCDT 25 (27 August 2024) [pdf, 117 KB]

   ...contact her client for two years, Ms M and her husband had had to live apart in different countries, hopeful of Ms M being able to make a successful application. A final application was declined and despite Ms M having a valid work visa, a good job and friends in New Zealand, she returned to India to live with her husband as a result of their inability to successfully make a joint application. Issues we determined 1. Has liability to the level of misconduct been established in...

8. [2011] NZEmpC 106 NZ Meat Workers and Related Trades Union Inc v AFFCO NZ Ltd [pdf, 142 KB]

   ...whatever, you know, and the thing is, and the other thing that really made me make the call is because of Wairoa. Wairoa needs that place. You know there’s a lot of people here that you know, they haven’t got anything else. You can’t get jobs anywhere and the money they’re getting here compared to what I used to get when I first started there is way better for what they are actually doing. We used to physically really work hard. Some of these people today have got rea...

9. [2018] NZEmpC 9 Lyttelton Port Co Ltd v Arthurs [pdf, 297 KB]

   ...employment when it did and therefore the dismissal was justifiable. 3 Employment Relations Act 2000, s 183. Background [7] Mr Arthurs was employed by LPC in October 2000 in a permanent job as a cargo handler. Prior to this he was on a roster and worked for LPC casually. He had been working for LPC and another stevedoring company at the port since 1992. He comes from a family of waterside workers, his father worked...

10. [2017] NZEmpC 141 Lewis v Immigration Guru Ltd [pdf, 322 KB]

    ...commenced employment with the defendant on 16 November 2015. Prior to that she had attended a one day trial, which appears to have been successful. Once the employment was confirmed, Mrs Lewis tendered her resignation at Rainbow’s End. [18] The job description attached to the written employment agreement is as follows: Duties and responsibilities: • Liaising with other staff to arrange meetings, prepare reports, briefing notes and correspondence, and proofr...