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The name of a company involved in an Employment Relations Authority hearing has been suppressed because of threats to its director and his family.
The company, referred to as X Ltd, trades as a food centre in an unnamed New Zealand town. It was taken to the authority in Christchurch by Tania Manson, who claimed she had been unjustifiably disadvantaged in her employment and constructively dismissed. The argument centred on rostered hours of work.
Authority member Helen Doyle, in a decision issued yesterday, found Ms Manson had been disadvantaged in her employment by the unjustified actions of her employer last year, but she had not been constructively dismissed.
She ordered X Ltd to pay Ms Manson $410 gross for a week's lost wages, and another $3000 compensation.
The issue of costs was reserved.
After the investigation, the director of X Ltd asked that the identity of the company not be published.
The request was based on difficulties he had had with previous employees, but made it clear his concerns regarding Ms Manson were minor in comparison to what had happened with others.
The director had been required to keep one of his children away from the city at night following a threat to firebomb the family home, and police had been involved in some situations concerning damage to business and vehicles at home.
Ms Doyle ordered that the identity of the company and the city in which it operates should not be published.
- NZPA
