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All Aboard Aotearoa Inc (AAA) unsuccessfully sought to judicially review decisions made by the Regional Transport Committee (RTC), Auckland Council’s Planning Committee and the Auckland Transport (AT) board in relation to the Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP) 2021.

RNZ's political panel of the week.

In E tūInc & Anor v Raiser Operations BV & Ors (the latest Uber case) the Employment Court decided that certain Uber and Uber Eats drivers were not contractors, as their written agreement specified, but were actually employees.

We will be closed from Thursday 22 December 2022, and will reopen on Monday 9 January 2023.

While the FSU’s appeal did not succeed this case made significant progress in the protection of the rights to freedom of expression.

Otago Regional Council (“ORC”) was unsuccessful in an application for a declaratory judgment that the whole of their proposed regional statement was a freshwater planning instrument, and subject to the freshwater planning process.

Talking about the week in politics.

A new private members’ bill is set to limit who may be subject to a restraint of trade, and under what conditions they may be imposed.

A massive change for industrial relations in New Zealand passed Parliament this week Most of The Fair Pay Agreements Act 2022 will commence on 1 December 2022,with some aspects coming in to force on 1 June 2023.