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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Toil & Trouble
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The cost of not dealing properly with punches to employee’s head

A recent ERA constructive dismissal case raises the issue of an employer’s ‘negligent retention’.

WATCH: Fiona Rotherham speaks with Daniel Erickson.

A company has had to pay significant compensation to two former employees after one was punched so hard in the head by another farmhand he was knocked off his quad bike and then punched several times on the ground.

The husband and wife employees resigned after the on-farm assault and took a case to

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Fiona Rotherham Tue, 24 Sep 2024
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