A Rotorua high school has been told to pay an ex-employee $4000 for losing his possessions and underpaying his severance wages after sacking him.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Ann Woolliams
Warwick Takahi worked as a caretaker at Rotorua Girls' High School and lived on-site between 2014 and 2017.
When Warwick Takahi's employment was terminated, a settlement was drawn up whereby he would be paid wage arrears, and any of his belongings at the school would be held by the board of trustees' chairperson for him to collect.
But when Mr Takahi turned up to collect his things, the school could not find them.
The Employment Relations Authority has ruled Rotorua Girls' High School breached its settlement terms by losing Mr Takahi's possessions and underpaying him by $60 in his final pay.
It has ordered the school pay him $4000 in compensation.
