The Wage Subsidy Scheme – Latest Update for Employers Significant changes to the Wage Subsidy Scheme (“the Scheme”) were announced on 27 and 28 March 2020 relevant to any employer that has not yet applied for wage subsidy relief. The new rules to the Scheme...
National State of Emergency – Impact on Business / Mortgage Relief The declaration of a State of National Emergency on 25th March will impact on employers.The Civil Defence Emergency Management Act (CDEMA) sets out the powers that may be exercised following the...
“It will not be life as normal, it will be different” On 23 March 2020 the Government announced that the COVID-19 alert level was to rise immediately to Level 3 and then rise to Level 4 on Wednesday 25 March 2020, for four weeks. The Treasury has also...
Thirty percent of our lives will be spent working. Why not make this thirty percent work for us? We all have choices. What we put into something is what we get out of it. What we focus on, is what we will create. Simple as that. What is the down side of using time at...
On 2 March 2015 the Human Rights Review Tribunal awarded Karen Hammond over $168,000.00 in damages from her former employer, New Zealand Credit Union Baywide (NZCU), following a Facebook breach of privacy and “loss of dignity”. Karen left NZCU in March 2012. Five days...
On 16 February 2015 Arthur Britton, director of Britton Housemovers Ltd (“the Company”) was sentenced to four months home detention and his Company was fined $60,000.00 after a house he was moving brought down a power line. While nobody was injured during the...