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The client gets what the client wants - September 28, 2007
Where a customer pressurises an employer into dismissing an employee, that dismissal can be fair. However, before dismissal, the employer must first consider whether there will be an injustice to the employee in carrying out the dismissal, and, if so, how to alleviate that injustice.

Whose Outlook - August 06, 2007
Whose Outlook is it anyway was the question answered by a recent High Court case. Are the private contact details saved on an employee's computer in his Outlook the property of the employee or the employer?

Without prejudice - June 29, 2007
You do not have to say anything, but what you do say may be given in evidence against you, even if it is said 'without prejudice'.

Don't fire without smoke - April 30, 2007
Can you fire an employee who breaks the smoking ban?

Dispute Irresolution - March 30, 2007
The Department of Trade and Industry is proposing a radical overhaul of the statutory dispute resolution procedures introduced by the Employment Act 2002.



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