EMPLOYMENT LAW NEWS

June 2006 Issue No: 8

INTRODUCING ORIWAVE
Gary Tayler Limited is now the approved agent for Oriwave, a comprehensive human resource management system delivered through an intranet system. This month’s newsletter will introduce Oriwave and provide an invitation for recipients of our newsletter to attend seminars about Oriwave.
Oriwave is a live management system which assists managers to handle staff in an effective way and in accordance with the law, thus providing employers with a reduced chance of facing litigation proceedings or having to pay compensation because the employer has acted wrongly without full knowledge or understanding of the law. The Employment Relations Authority says the holiday period for employers not knowing the law is over. No more excuses. Penalties for failure to follow the law have reached $5,000 so far.
The Oriwave system provides management and applicable staff with guidelines and policies that cover all areas of the employment life cycle from recruiting to ending employment. The system enables businesses to allow different levels of access to different hierarchies of staff ensuring staff can only access the information that is relevant to their work and not the whole management toolkit. A human resource toolkit supports the policies and guidelines and where applicable, Oriwave provides a plain language explanation of the legislation relating to the specific guideline or policy. Oriwave also provides a plain language explanation of the relevant legislation currently governing employment in New Zealand such as the Employment Relations Act 2000 and other legislation that employers and managers need to be aware of. Oriwave is a live system meaning it is constantly updated with any changes in the legislation as they happen so users are ensured the information they access from Oriwave is relevant and up to date.
Another advantage of Oriwave is the availability of back up support supplied by specialist employment law firm as required. Users of Oriwave are able to contact Gary Tayler Limited for support and clarification relating to Oriwave and we can provide specialist employment law advice or advocacy if it is required. We strongly recommend businesses contact us for step by step guidance on how to deal with disciplinary or termination of employment issues regardless of whether they have Oriwave. The current law relating to these areas is comprehensive and employers are subject to a high level of risk in relation to either of these areas.
A number of large businesses with existing Human Resource departments are currently using Oriwave as a support system, also Oriwave is a particularly valuable and cost effective system for smaller businesses who do not have the need for a Human Resource Manager but who do have staff to manage.
To find about more about Oriwave please visit the following web site www.Oriwave.com
Gary Tayler Ltd in conjunction with Oriwave consultant Tony Waddel will be holding seminars about Oriwave on Thursday 06 July 4.00pm, Tuesday 11 July 4.00pm and Monday 17 July 4.00pm. We invite employers and managers to register their interest in attending a seminar by contacting Karen Tayler at our
offices, her contact details are below.
When registering your interest please
indicate if you have a preference as to
which date you would like to attend.
Thursday 6 July
Tuesday 11 July
Monday 17 July
Ph. 06 8356147

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Next newsletter: -
The first case from the Employment Court is now out regarding the new justification for dismissal test and another judgment is due out from the full bench of the Court. Our next newsletter will be dedicated to this development in the law.