Employment
News & Events
2002 Archive
Wednesday 23 January 2002
Stretching Stress
Holidays can be something of a source of addiction for many of us: at this time of year, the return to work can be a disconcerting experience - possibly even the cause of "vacation withdrawal".
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Wednesday 6 February 2002
A New Workplace Problem : Bullying Australians
It has been a very strange summer for my television. Time and time again it has purported to inform me that our cricket team has dismissed the Australian one day side for a pathetically paltry total.
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Wednesday 20 February 2002
Bottom-Biting and Reverse-Engineering
One of the most interesting places that I have visited is a small rural town in the desert of New Mexico called Roswell. It is a community legitimately proud of a number of famous exports (including Demi Moore).
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Wednesday 6 March 2002
Don't do that Voodoo that you do so well
One of the world's most curious religions is widely practised in certain parts of the Caribbean and South America (and in a few of the southern states of the USA). Voodoo is a bizarre combination of the Catholic faith and the occult.
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Wednesday 20 March 2002
I'll have another beer ... and what are you doing after work?
Let me take you back to a time long ago. A time when Bruce Willis had hair, and when ageing celebrities were allowed to host situation comedies, not renovation shows.
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Wednesday 3 April 2002
Psst ! - heard the latest?
It is often interesting to reflect upon how changing times have had an enormous effect upon the standards that we expect in society.
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Wednesday 17 April 2002
Bless this mess
Anyone who has seen the movie The Exorcist will tell you that they have been witness to some of the more memorable scenes in motion picture history.
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Wednesday 1 May 2002
Prosecuting the prosecutors
Any reader who is a regular viewer of BBC World will be well aware of the current public outcry in the United Kingdom at the state of the British rail industry. Amidst a number of significant complaints, the industry is currently the subject of a number of different proposals for reform.
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May 2002
A Beginner's Guide to Export Contracts
New Zealand is a nation of international traders. As the range and value of our exports increases so too does the number and spectrum of countries with which we trade.
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Wednesday 15 May 2002
The real big brother
Several years ago reality was something that we tried to escape by watching television. Nowadays, of course, reality is television.
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Monday 20 May 2002
Clients rank Bell Gully No 1
In the latest guide to rank law firms, clients have voted Bell Gully the leading law firm in New Zealand.
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Wednesday 29 May 2002
The fight for the right to be fat
Obesity might fairly be described as one of the true scourges of our time. Recent studies have established that up to 60% of Americans are overweight - and that 20% of people in the United Kingdom are "dangerously" obese.
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Wednesday 12 June 2002
We have ignition (Do you have any papers?)
In hindsight, it was something that could only happen if you invited a rock star to tour your factory.
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Monday 24 June 2002
Bell Gully is New Zealand's leading law firm 2002
A new survey conducted by Who's Who Legal, London has found that Bell Gully has more of the world's leading lawyers than any other firm in New Zealand.
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Wednesday 26 June 2002
Making an employee an offer she can't refuse
Earlier this month the world mourned - or at least acknowledged - the death of one of the most famous organised crime bosses of all time.
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Wednesday 10 July 2002
Keep your opinions off the email
When I was at primary school we were asked to participate in a debate of the proposition "that the pen is mightier than the sword".
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Thursday 18 July 2002
Sports have grounds for concern over workplace law
In perhaps what is a favourable reflection upon the state of our society, the phrase "sporting tragedy" has a very limited meaning in New Zealand.
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Wednesday 24 July 2002
Making sure your employee has a right to be heard
For the most part, you would think that kangaroos were fairly innocuous animals. Apart from lending their image to a popular brand of cornflakes - and a favourite television show of the 1970s - for the most part kangaroos seem to lead lives which are quite innocent, and unconnected with our own.
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Wednesday 7 August 2002
How the Employment Court gets the right result
Alfred Hitchcock will be remembered as the master of suspense - an old fashioned director who was able to electrify mysterious and eerie crime stories.
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Wednesday 21 August 2002
Employment Court revisits the employee/contractor conundrum
I have a distinct memory of the image of Marlon Brando in the Godfather informing various members of his "family" that he wished to "take a contract out" on a particular individual.
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Wednesday 4 September 2002
There's nothing quite like a kick in the teeth
Our experience of the Employment Relations Act has taught us that sitting down and talking through our problems really does help us solve them. 90% of all employment problems go no further than mediation.
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Wednesday 18 September 2002
The great cost in justice
When we read newspaper articles about employment law cases, our first thoughts are usually directed at the outcome of the case - and also its potential significance for other cases. One of the issues that is often forgotten, however, is the question of cost. Does justice come at a price?
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Monday 30 September 2002
A case for disciplinary action
Neasa MacErlean and Julie Middleton advise what to do if you're in line for a telling off.</>
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Wednesday 2 October 2002
The sticky issue of costs
"You can't always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes, you just mind find,
You get what you need."
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Wednesday 16 October 2002
Dyslexia Rules, KO?
Over the last few decades there has been a significant increase in the awareness of the needs and rights of disabled people in society.
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Wednesday 30 October 2002
Fired for the "F" word
In Victorian society, lip-reading was regarded as something of an art. In an age before super-sensitive microphones and high-powered binoculars, lip-reading was the ultimate form of surveillance.
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Wednesday 13 November 2002
Employment law - like taking candy from a baby
As I get older, I make the dramatic realisation that many of the important things that I have to learn in life involve me re-learning stuff that I knew when I was a kid.
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Wednesday 27 November 2002
The puck stops here
I want to commence this column by apologising to anyone reading it who might be Canadian. This is not intended to be an expose of the absurdity of professional hockey.
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Wednesday 11 December 2002
Something fishy at work
Astute observers of billboard advertising may have noticed a campaign over recent months to attract students to Dunedin.
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