Employer Bulletin | 8 April

Changes to ACC’s Accredited Employers Programme (AEP) aim to deliver a better experience for businesses and workers whose work injury claims are handled by the organisation directly, rather than through ACC.

Accredited employers will be given better insights into their performance, more support and guidance to help them improve their worker’s experience as well as injured workers being better supported by their employers.

These changes will modernise health and safety assessment requirements, removing excessive compliance and increasing flexibility for accredited employers.

In today’s Bulletin

• Successful interim reinstatement after drug test was invalided.
• Vulnerable employee denied right to elect to transfer.
• Closure of business without any consultation process leads to unjustified dismissal.
• Long-serving employee loses his job in a restructure.
• Scholarships do not constitute ‘working’.
• Seven news updates for employers, including ACC changes, consultation on Building Code changes, and new tools to strengthen immigration law enforcement and nine Bills open for submission.

If you have any questions, about this case or other employment relation matters, call the Advice Line team on 0800 800 362.