Waitress jobless as boss gets wrong drink
NZ NewswireJune 8,
2012, 3:26 pm
A New Plymouth waitress has been awarded more than $10,000 in lost
wages and compensation after she was fired for serving a director of the
company she worked for the wrong drink.
Jessica Chand, who started working for $13.50 an hour at the
Japanese Steak House in New Plymouth on August 31, last year, was fired under
the 90-day trial legislation.
She filed a personal grievance with the Employment Relations
Authority (ERA).
The ERA said her employer Otaku Holdings acted in a grossly unfair
way.
Ms Chand thought her work was going well until the evening of
September 16 when Thomas Buckthought, a director of the company employing her
arrived for a late meal.
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| Thomas Buckthought |
Ms Chand took over responsibility for his table after there were
difficulties with the service.
She was told the next day that she was being dismissed because she
served Mr Buckthought the wrong drink.
The ERA said the
employer's processes were poor. The probation clause in Ms Chand's contract did
not explain the provisions of the law as required and was therefore defective.
Peter’s
Comment
Served him wrong or served him right? I’ll go for served
him right. How much perfection did the ‘buck thought’ was appropriate for
$13.50 an hour?
Just as there are registers of people with bad credit
histories there should also be an official register of bad employers where a job
applicant can check out a prospective employer before committing themselves to
something they may regret.
I decided to Google Thomas Buckthought and below is what
I found. Jessica Chand should not hold her breath awaiting payment. And perhaps
she did serve him the wrong drink; some people may say she should have given
him something more potent than alcohol.
Taranaki home
builder goes into liquidation
JOHN ANTHONY
Last updated 05:00 02/03/2012
ON THE RUN: Taranaki housing company Dream
Homes has gone into liquidation with more than $1.5 million owed to creditors.
Attempts to speak to Dream Homes owner Thomas Buckthought on Thursday were
unsuccessful.
Failed Taranaki
housing company Dream Homes has been put into liquidation amidst revelations
the company traded under a fake Registered Master Builders logo.
Dream Homes director
Thomas Buckthought said he was now selling his home and leaving Taranaki,
possibly for Australia, to keep his family safe after receiving threats from
suppliers.
All six housing and
property companies owned by Mr Buckthought were put into liquidation on
Tuesday.
The first liquidation
report for Volk Industries, trading as Dream Homes, showed the company owed
more than $1.5 million dollars to creditors.
On February 28 the
company had only $13,000 to its name.
Hamilton-based
liquidator Kim Thompson said the company had virtually no assets to pay
creditors.
"There's a huge
hole there and right now I can't quite figure out how it got so big," Mr
Thompson said.
The report shows more
than 80 unsecured creditors were owed $823,000 and 12 secured creditors were
owed $692,000. . . .
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