The Employment Relations Authority has awarded a man more than $16,000 after he was sacked for refusing to do a job which he thought was illegal.
Richard Hao Zhu was employed as a financial analyst by Renaissance Investments and Finance Group Ltd on March 3, 2011.
He was seconded to
China to start a new branch of the company where he was instructed to undertake a form of foreign exchange trading.
According to the ERA's determination, released today, he believed this contravened Chinese laws and would have been a criminal offence, therefore he did not follow instruction.
When he returned to New Zealand, Renaissance gave Mr Zhu an unpaid leave application and told him unless he signed it he would not be paid the commission he was owed of up to $4700.
