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Your employer is entitled to terminate your employment during a 90 day trial period provided your employment agreement meets the strict requirements of the Employment Relations Act.
They do not have to give a reason, or consult with you, but notice must be given within the 90 days and you must be given at least as much notice as your Employment Agreement requires. Your employer must pay you all money owing, including your holiday pay.
The trial period must be recorded in writing in your employment agreement and signed by you and your employer before you start work.
Since 6 May 2019 trial periods can only be used by businesses that employ fewer than 20 employees. Larger businesses may use a probationary period, but this must also be agreed by both parties before the employee starts and a fair process must be used to terminate employment.
Check that your employment agreement does include a trial period and that it was signed by you both before you started work. If it wasn’t, the employer must go through a fair process and give you fair warning before they dismiss you.
If all is correct, you can’t take a personal grievance in relation to the dismissal. However, you are able to take a personal grievance claim on other grounds such as discrimination, harassment, or to recover unpaid wages.
In all other respects you should be treated the same as any other employee and have the same minimum rights as anybody else.
For more information, come and see us upstairs in Coastlands Shopping Mall or ring 04 298 4944 and we’ll do all we can to help you if you have a problem.
Poll: Should the government levy industries that contribute to financial hardship?
As reported in the Post, there’s a $30 million funding gap in financial mentoring. This has led to services closing and mentors stepping in unpaid just to keep helping people in need 🪙💰🪙
One proposed solution? Small levies on industries that profit from financial hardship — like banks, casinos, and similar companies.
So we want to hear what you think:
Should the government ask these industries to contribute?
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59% Yes, supporting people is important!
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26% No, individuals should take responsibility
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15% ... It is complicated
Have you got New Zealand's best shed? Show us and win!
Once again, Resene and NZ Gardener are on the hunt for New Zealand’s best shed! Send in the photos and the stories behind your man caves, she sheds, clever upcycled spaces, potty potting sheds and colourful chicken coops. The Resene Shed of the Year 2026 winner receives $1000 Resene ColorShop voucher, a $908 large Vegepod Starter Pack and a one-year subscription to NZ Gardener. To enter, tell us in writing (no more than 500 words) why your garden shed is New Zealand’s best, and send up to five high-quality photos by email to mailbox@nzgardener.co.nz. Entries close February 23, 2026.
February's Weather to Mid-month
The dry, sunny weather of recent months continues, but with an increase in temperatures.
Over the last couple of months summer's temperatures in Kāpiti had been up to a degree cooler than average, but recent weeks has seen a daily average of 23.3℃, normal for February. Thursday's (Feb. 12) 27.2℃ was the highest of the summer to-date
The longtime average rainfall for the month is around 60mm and we have had about half that, but this is insufficient to maintain soil moisture, so if the unsettled weather predicted for the next few days delivered 30-40mm it would be good.
The SW winds, with a 'watch' from Sunday evening (Feb 15), were already fairly strong by mid morning.
Photo: Saturday evening, the calm before the storm.
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