Bell Gully News

Tuesday 31 August 2010

Entrepreneurs head to Waitangi for MORGO

Nothing Ventured is the theme for this year's major conference for entrepreneurs to be held at Waitangi this week.Read on

Thursday 26 August 2010

Employment Bills under consideration – law changes open to submissions

Parliament is seeking views on proposed changes to the Employment Relations Act 2000 (ERA) and the Holidays Act 2003 contained in two amendment Bills released earlier this month.Read on

Wednesday 18 August 2010

Employment Bills released to amend Employment Relations Act and Holidays Act

On Monday, the Government presented two Bills proposing a number of planned changes to the Employment Relations Act 2000 (ERA) and Holidays Act 2003 announced last month.Read on

Friday 20 August 2010

Bell Gully Chairman appointed to Chair New Zealand Business Roundtable

Bell Gully Chairman Roger Partridge has been elected as new chair of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, New Zealand's leading public policy think tank.Read on

Wednesday 11 August 2010

New Resource Management Processes Beginning to Bite

The Resource Management Act was recently amended to provide for a number of process related matters, one of which was to enable applications to be directly referred to the Environment Court and to avoid what is known as first instance hearing. This came into force on the 1st of October 2009 and applies to any application made after that date.Read on

Tuesday 27 July 2010

Serious misconduct did not justify dismissal

This month, the Employment Court found that the dismissal of an employee for admitted serious misconduct was nevertheless unjustified and upheld her reinstatement (Secretary for Justice v Dodd [2010] NZEMPC 84).Read on