January 2010 News Archive

90 Day Trial Period - Extension! (rd December 2010) Changes to the Holidays Act 2003 and the Employment Relations Act 2000 have now passed their third reading and are law, effective from 1 April, 2011. There has been a lot of discussion around the extension of the 90 day trial period for new employees to all employers.  Since April 2009, employers with fewer than 20 staff have been able to take these staff on using a 90 day trial period. These employees can then be dismissed within this 90 day period without the ability to raise a personal grievance for unjustified dismissal.  What remains is the employee’s ability to bring a personal grievance on other grounds including discrimination, harassment or unjustified disadvantage or employers who have not been operating out of a duty of good faith. Continue Reading >>

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