How To Resign From Your Employment Have you found a new job? Do you believe it’s time to move on from your current employer? Whatever your reason for wanting to leave your job, you might be wondering how to go about the process. You might feel awkward about handing in your resignation or don’t know…
What needs to be included in an employment contract? Are you entering a new job? Do you want to make sure that the employment contract includes all the necessary clauses and requirements? Resolve Legal explains what must be included in an employment contract and what you need to watch out for as an employee. What…
Why Fairness Is A Vital Element Of Any Change Process There’s probably no single recipe for getting procedural fairness right during any organizational change, like redundancy. However, research suggests fairness is a useful predictor of the sorts of reactions that can be expected from staff who lose their jobs during a redundancy. Fairness needs to…
What is Serious Misconduct and What Process Do I Use? Serious misconduct occurs when some action by the employee undermines or destroys the trust and confidence an employer has placed in the employee. This is more likely to happen if the misconduct could impact the employee’s ability to perform the job, or the actions affect…
Want a Flourishing Workplace? Motivation Helps Your Employees Succeed Why Motivate Employees? When motivation flourishes in a work environment, employees feel supported and achieve more. And its not that hard. Here are 5 ways to assist your employees succeed. 1. Set realistic goals Ensure your employees have clarity and clear expectations around their employment role.…
6 Tips to Deal with a Toxic Employee! Toxic employees suck energy out of a workplace. They are often arrogant who delight in pitting other employees against each other. They are disruptive in meetings, miss deadlines and blame others. If you don’t handle toxic employees with diplomacy and some strategy, before you know it your…
What The Hell Is Procedural Fairness? How To Prevent Ending Up In Court Defending Personal Grievances That Could Be Avoided. If you have to go through any disciplinary process with staff, woe betide if you get the procedure wrong. If you don’t give your employee adequate notice of the disciplinary meeting, fail to carry out…
Common Questions About Wills WHAT IS A WILL? Your will contains your instructions about what you want done with your property when you die and how you want your dependants (spouse, civil union partner, de facto partner, children, etc) to be looked after. As far as you and your family are concerned, it could be…
Legal Terms in Plain English A Jury is a group of people who decide on whether a person is guilty or not of a crime in they have been charged with. After you have been selected as a juror you must either swear an oath to God or affirm to promise to do your best to…
Can Employers Or Government Force Employee’s To Get Vaccinated? The Covid-19 vaccination programme is being rolled out in New Zealand has led to this question being asked. Can employers or the government make employee’s get vaccinated? The answer is NO……..but… Competing Rights and Duties There are competing rights, duties and obligations of employees, employers and…