A woman who was sacked by an Auckland office equipment supplier without any notice or explanation, after just a month on the job, has been awarded more than $8000 in compensation.
Melinda van Meygaarden started work at Intagr8 on March 5 and was summarily dismissed on April 13, according to an Employment Relations Authority determination.
The company said it had dismissed her under the 90-day trial period clause in her employment agreement, but Ms van Meygaarden said - and the authority accepted - she had never been provided with such an agreement.
The company was unable to produce a copy of the agreement, and claimed Ms van Meygaarden must have removed it from the office when she was dismissed. She strongly denied that suggestion, and the authority agreed she had not been provided with a written employment agreement.
Authority member Rachel Larmer also questioned the evidence given by the company, saying its human resources manager, Helen Taylor, and its general manager, Stephen Mascarenhas, had assured her they had prepared their own witness statements, and denied they had copied and pasted evidence.
"I find that denial hard to accept," Ms Larmer said, pointing out that several paragraphs of their evidence were identical, including getting a date wrong.
Ms Larmer said the company claimed it had performance concerns over Ms van Meygaarden, but offered no documentation to back that up.
In dismissing Ms van Meygaarden, Intagr8 "failed to follow even the most basic procedural fairness and natural justice requirements".
The authority said Ms van Meygaarden had given "compelling evidence of the humiliation, loss of dignity and injury to feelings that she suffered as a result of her harsh and unjustified dismissal".
- ? Fairfax NZ News
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/7848488/Sacked-woman-wins-case-and-8000
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