[2010] NZEmpc 111 Smith v Stokes Valley Pharmacy (2009) Limited [pdf, 126 KB]
...Ms Smith’s employment agreement required the employer to give four weeks’ notice of dismissal, including where termination of the employment agreement was undertaken in reliance on the trial period, as it was in this case. Although it also permitted expressly the company to make a payment in place of some or all of the notice period not given, the payment made by the defendant of two weeks’ wages was deficient by half for a summary dismissal, as this was. Deficient notice wa...