In a recent challenge to a determination of the Employment Relations Authority, the Employment Court ordered a new $6,000 penalty against an employer and roughly doubled the monetary compensation payable to a former employee who had been dismissed in what the Court described as a "mixed motive" redundancy: Pyne v Invacare New Zealand Ltd [2023] NZEmpC 179.

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By Dana Thomson, Solicitor.