Employment Relations Authority
Topics
- Senior doctors' pay dispute and strikesQuiet since 17 Oct 2025
- Fire and Emergency job cuts and strikesQuiet since 19 Dec 2025
All stories
October 2026
- HR manager awarded $35,000 after unjustified dismissal from Bidfood
- The Helicopter Line ordered to pay for unjustified dismissal of cafe worker
- Creditors unlikely to be paid after Hamilton cafe company collapses
- Doctors fail to stop Auckland Hospital bullying investigation
September 2026
- He was promised at least 30 hours a week. Instead, he was paid cash and fired after 20 days
- Former worker alleges bullying in Wholesale Solutions employment case
- FMA chief executive Samantha Barrass resigns immediately
- Restaurant business and owner fined for underpaying five workers
- Hospitality figure Ed Tanner declared bankrupt
August 2026
- Christchurch nanny awarded $9720 for unpaid overnight duties
- Sixty-one former Gloriavale members seek $40m in employment claim
- Former MBIE worker wins unjustifiable dismissal case without payout
- Horticulture company and former director ordered to pay for migrant exploitation
- Former Whangārei mayor wins employment dispute with son
- Former Hamilton Zoo zookeeper awarded $18,000 for unjustifiable disadvantage
July 2026
December 2025
- Fire and Emergency takes union to Employment Relations Authority
- ACC scraps plan to require staff to work in office three days
- Paid firefighters continue strike action despite pressure from FENZ
November 2025
- Employment Relations Authority orders PR firm to pay deceased worker
- PSA launches legal action against ACC over working from home rules
- Southland meatworkers lose unfair dismissal case over drinking video
October 2025
September 2025
- Southland dairy farm and owner lose appeal over exploitation penalties+1
- Health NZ applies to ERA to resolve senior doctors' pay dispute
- Senior hospital doctors to strike for 48 hours next week+3
August 2025
- South Island bakery worker awarded $16,000 for unjustifiable dismissal
- Former council worker awarded lost wages after unjustified dismissal
July 2025
- Southland dairy farmer and company fined for obstructing investigation
- PSA takes legal action against MBIE over flexible work rules
- Wellington mayoral candidate ordered to pay former employee $28,000
- Lower Hutt sushi restaurant fined for employment standard breaches
- Former Inland Revenue employee loses employment dispute over period products
May 2025
March 2025
- Former teacher takes Christchurch Boys’ High School to employment tribunal
- Winton Capital ordered to pay former assistant $100,000
February 2025
- Wellington salon owner ordered to pay $230,000 to migrant workers
- NZ First supports Labour bill to criminalise intentional wage theft
- SPCA to pay $29,000 after flawed dismissal of worker