Union ordered to pay staffer $120,000

Stuff reports:

The E tū union’s bill for fighting a wrongful dismissal case against one of its own staff is likely to top $200,000 – in a case one union heavyweight has described as a “woeful litany of mis-steps”.

The country’s largest private sector union last week lost an Employment Court appeal over the sacking of union organiser Sher Singh – and must now pay him a compensation package which includes a year’s salary, $25,000 for hurt and humiliation and, most likely, two sets of legal fees.

It is ironic that often some of the worst cases that go before the Employment Court involve unions as employers!