New ERA rules around availability provisions – how they might affect your ability to manage your workforce Amendments made to the Employment Relations Act 2000 (“ERA”) in April this year were intended to address concerns around so-called ‘zero hour contracts’. These are contracts that contain no guaranteed minimum hours, but require the employee to be

Court of Appeal Scales Back Procedural Fairness Requirements In recent months a handful of decisions from the Employment Court had raised concerns regarding the level of scrutiny being applied to employer’s disciplinary processes. The Court of Appeal was called upon to consider this issue in its recent judgment in A Limited v H (the identities