[2006] NZEmpC AC 65/06 McAlister v Air New Zealand Ltd [pdf, 139 KB]
...McAlister’s case on an individual basis. Air New Zealand treated Mr McAlister’s flight instructor role as merely incidental if not irrelevant. The removal of his flight instructor duties and reduction in rank was detrimental treatment and forms the basis of the claim for disadvantage and discrimination. [68] In Smith v Air New Zealand Ltd2 the Employment Court materially found that s 2 of the same employment agreement means that captains on B747 aircraft are employe...