Labour Bulletin Archive June 2010

Do you know about this employer duty?

We’d been having a good moan about the aches and pains we’ve got from working on a computer all day. And it got me thinking …as an employer it’s your duty to look after the health and safety of your employees. Even if they work at desks all day, there are concerns you must watch out for.
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Sex workers win some unfair dismissal rights from the Labour Appeal Court

On 29 May 2010 the Labour Appeal Court overturned a previous judgment of the Labour Court which said that, although a sex worker employed by a brothel was an employee for purposes of the Labour Relations Act, the worker wasn’t entitled to protection against unfair dismissal.
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Must I pay accumulated leave pay if my employee absconded?

We’ve been a bit confused around the office recently…one of our colleagues has disappeared without a trace!  I’m being a bit dramatic…but either way, one day he was at work and the next he was gone. The Big Boss did try all possible means of contacting him, with no luck. So she’s assumed he’s simply not coming back. Her next question was aimed at me…”how much do I have to pay him?”
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