[2010] NZEmpC 45 Miller v Fonterra Co-op Group Ltd [pdf, 38 KB]
...reimbursement from the plaintiff of a share of the legal costs incurred in dealing with allegedly unlawful exports in an affair which became known as “powdergate” and which is said to have cost Fonterra almost $1.5 million. [4] The plaintiff claims to have been employed by Kiwi Co-operative Dairies Ltd (Kiwi), a company which was one of those amalgamated to form Fonterra so as to effectively make the plaintiff an employee of Fonterra. In response, Fonterra alleges that the p...