Turkey: Bullying At Work: Mobbing

Mobbing” has become one of the hot topics in employment related disputes in the recent years. The number of compensation claims filed by employees who have been subject to their employers’ or superiors’ intimidating actions, has conspicuously increased. This is so particularly after publication of the Prime Ministry’s Circular on Prevention of Psychological Harassment (Mobbing) in Workplaces1 (the “Circular”) in 2011. The Circular defines mobbing as “a systematic emotional assault and continuing disrespectful and […]

By | November 10th, 2014 ||

New Zealand: Social media pitfalls in Blylevens v Kidicorp Limited

Some principles must seem so obvious as to go without saying. Yet, the recent determination of the Employment Relations Authority in Blylevens v Kidicorp Limited suggests that perhaps even obvious principles benefit from being re-stated from time to time.

The background to this case was an employment relationship dispute between Kidicorp, the owner of a child care centre, and its employee and manager, Ms Blylevens. During the course of the dispute, Ms Blylevens sought the […]

By | November 9th, 2014 ||

Australia: Working at best practice – the benefits of Individual Flexibility Agreements

I have acted for several businesses that have had claims made against them from an employee for under payment including penalties, overtime and leave loading. In each of these matters, the businesses were paying the employee above the award rate and in some cases were also paying the employee a “bonus”.

However, as our clients did not have Individual Flexibility Agreements (“IFA”) in place to vary the requirements under the award to make a “loaded” […]

By | November 9th, 2014 ||