{"id":349,"date":"2022-12-18T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T07:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/?p=349"},"modified":"2022-12-18T20:19:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T07:19:48","slug":"when-can-an-employee-get-into-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/blog\/when-can-an-employee-get-into-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"When can an employee get into trouble for something that happened outside the workplace?"},"content":{"rendered":"
An employee is paid to do their job during the hours they are at work. Even if an employee is on-call, they are normally still \u201cat work\u201d. However, there are some things that happen outside the workplace that could cause employment problems.<\/p>\n
Because the range of human behaviour is limited only by our imagination, it is hard to describe a \u201cbright line\u201d that conduct outside the workplace must not cross. In general, there are two reasons that conduct outside the workplace could cause employment problems:<\/p>\n
Some real-life examples of conduct outside the workplace that crosses the line are:<\/p>\n
Everyone is entitled to reasonable privacy and there are limits on what an employer can do about things that happen away from work. The most important question that the Court will ask is whether in all the circumstances of something that an employee does outside of the workplace, a fair and reasonable employer could take disciplinary action against that employee.<\/p>\n
Members of the Armed Forces are subject to different rules, and normally are subject to a heightened obligations even when they are away from the workplace.<\/p>\n
If you think that you could be having employment problems with something that has happened outside the workplace, it is important that you get advice early. This will give you the best chance of resolving issues quickly. Contact Frontline Law<\/a> for a free initial consultation.<\/p>\n *The information in this blog post is general in nature, is not legal advice, and should not be relied on without speaking to a lawyer about your specific situation.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An employee is paid to do their job during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontlinelaw.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}