Napier City Council has been ordered to pay $4500 to a former employee - on top of $50,000 in redundancy compensation already awarded to him by the Employment Relations Authority.
In September the authority issued a determination on a dispute between the council and former stormwater asset manager Scott Estcourt.
Authority member Marcus Loftus dismissed various personal grievance claims brought by Mr Estcourt, but agreed with his claim the council had improperly failed to pay redundancy compensation. The council was ordered to pay him $50,433.90.
A hearing was held on the matter in Napier in March. Central to this was a council restructure last year. Mr Estcourt was one of several employees to raise personal grievances over the restructure.
He occupied one of three water-related council positions but in July 2016 was advised his role was to be disestablished. He felt the new job offered was not an alternative equivalent position - but the council disagreed.