Our Employment Law Consultants specialise in representing employees/workers in the following areas:
- Personal Grievance claims
- 90-day trials
- Unjustified/Unfair dismissal claims (being fired or dismissed unfairly)
- Unjustified disadvantage claims
- Pay Arrears
- Holiday pay
- Redundancies
- Breach of contract
- Performance issues
- Mediations with the Department of Business, Innovation and Employment
- Employment Relations Authority investigations
- Human Rights Act claims
- Injunctions and other interim relief
- Restraint of Trade
- Misuse of confidential information claims
- Disciplinary meetings
- Employment contract negotiations
- Exit packages and all other workplace issues
If you believe you have been mistreated in your place of work but are not sure if you have a legal claim, we offer a free phone consultation to determine where you stand.
Workflow Process
THE EMPLOYEE PROCESS generally follows
the steps laid out below, with occasional variation.
1
Initial Contact / Information Gathering / Building Narrative (what happened according to client)
2
Contact employer, establish ourselves as representatives, request information on employee (privacy act request), raise personal grievance if appropriate (this must be stated ie. “We raise a personal grievance for disadvantage”), direction of correspondence to ourselves instead of the client.
3
Attempt negotiations directly with the employer / the employers representatives. (process COULD stop here if successful)
4
If (more likely when) direct negotiations fail, apply to MBIE (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment) Mediation Services to go to an official mediation.
5
If they decline a mediation, file a grievance with the ERA (Employment Relations Authority), whose first move is always to mandate an MBIE mediation if one hasn’t happened.
6
If after mediation no resolution has been reached, and after fact finding we find our client still has a valid claim (if the other side haven’t introduced evidence that directly contradicts our clients recollection of events), we progress it to the ERA (if they agreed to mediation) or we progress it IN the ERA (if the mediation was mandated).
Quick Links for Employees
Check out these helpful links below, for extra tips and insight.
Immigrant worker employment rights
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How to talk to your boss about boundaries
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If you believe you have been mistreated in your place of work but are not sure if you have a legal claim, we offer a free phone consultation to determine where you stand.
