The Employment Relations Authority has upheld a personal
grievance claim following a redundancy.
The General Manager of a mobile retail company was made redundant
following two redundancy processes.
The first process was unfair because it gave the General
Manager only less than 24 hours to respond to the proposed redundancy and the
employer failed to provide any supporting financial information to the
employee.
The second redundancy process did provide financial
information but was also not conducted in a fair way. At the time of the process the employee was
on sick leave and did not engage in the consultation process. The ERA held that the process was started too
quickly and there should have been more time for responses from the
employee.
The ERA awarded over $19,000 in lost wages and $7,000
compensation for the humiliation suffered from the poor process.
Alan
Knowsley
Employment
Lawyer Wellington
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