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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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