Business Advisors, Chartered Accountants, Christchurch, Dunedin

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We trust you are well after the weekend’s events and the ongoing aftershocks.

Our first thoughts are with you and your families and we hope that everybody has come through this traumatic event as best as possible.

At this stage it looks as if the Polson Higgs infrastructure is fine. We were very lucky. We have received structural clearance and are looking to return to normal operations as soon as possible. There are however many stories to be told by our people!

We are working with our building manager to ensure everything is operating as anticipated. We have made the decision that while staff will be working from Thursday 9th September (either in the office or from home) the office will reopen to the public on Monday 13th September. We will update this as more information comes to hand.

We are keen to ensure that we support our clients at this difficult time.

There has been a significant amount of damage to property and disruption is likely to a large number of businesses. The challenges facing you may include;

Immediate staff issues where you may not be able to open, staff may not be available for work and your associated approach to this
Claims on insurance, both for property loss or loss of profit claims
Operational issues where property has been damaged and is not able to be used
Cashflow issues while business returns to usual
IT system issues either equipment support or accessing information.

We have freed up some resource within Polson Higgs to assist clients through these and other issues if you require help.

Please feel free to call your partner contact on their cell phone number (see Partners section) or call our normal office number (see Contact Us) and we will ensure the appropriate people are available to help.

We have attached information from the Department of Labour website which provides advice to employers and employees.

After the Earthquake advice to Employers and Employees (317KB, Adobe PDF)

The link to this website, which we expect will be updated regularly, is: http://www.dol.govt.nz/quake2010/

Graham Crombie
Partner

Last updated: 9th September 2010 | 9:07 am

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