Yeah its close to impossible to fire someone. A guy I worked with once was frequently drunk on the job and often didn't turn up for work (at one point for a couple of weeks) he also destroyed company property with a drunken late night binge with non company mates. He got fired but took them to court, he won and was given a payout for unjust dismissal.
what did he win on?
From a layman perspective it would seem there were plenty of grounds for dismissal there, as long as a proper process was followed and no one punched the guy or nothing.
If not, that is BS- I mean that he got to behave that way...
I've also witnessed a lot of stories the other way, with people who work hard on insecure contracts getting flicked and just accepting it because they didn't know their rights.
Ah- you just wrote it above.
Yeh, and in a small organisation like NZF they might not have an HR department so...