During 2019 the Labour Inspectorate has taken 20 cases to
the Employment Relations Authority or Employment Court to make directors
personally responsible for employment law breaches. This is part of a focus by the Labour
Inspectorate on ensuring that employers cannot avoid personal liability by
closing their businesses. Many of the
cases involved failure to pay minimum wages and failure to keep wage, time,
holiday and leave records.
The 20 cases have involved penalties and pay arrears of
$760,000 to be paid by individual directors and employers, in addition to
penalties imposed upon companies as the employer.
Keeping accurate employment records and providing those to
the Labour Inspectors, when requested, without delay is a legal obligation that
the Labour Inspectors are determined to enforce and employers who attempt to
delay the provision of material or provide inadequate records are likely to
face prosecution and significant penalties.
Alan
Knowsley
Employment
Lawyer Wellington
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