The former employee then sought compliance orders against the director personally. A liquidator’s report recorded that the director had taken excessive drawings from the company, which he denied. The Authority declined to make findings under the involvement-in-breach provisions of the Employment Relations Act 2000, instead ordering the director under section 137(2) to take the necessary steps to ensure the company received $32,456.56 plus interest so the former employee could be paid.
None of it was paid. What followed was nearly two years of manoeuvring. The director challenged the compliance determination in August 2024, won a stay on conditions that he pay money into court and cover a costs…