Will unions highlight this bad employer fined for unfairly sacking a bad employer?

The Dom Post reports on an employer:

… been forced to pay $5000 for unfairly firing a sick Wellington worker. 

Ms Kindell had worked at the association’s Wellington office since 2005, but was dismissed after several extended periods of sick leave on pay, which included being hospitalised eight times.

Before dismissing her, the association made several attempts to assess whether Ms Kindell could return to work, most of which never took place following disagreements.

But the authority said the association should have tried harder before dismissing Ms Kindell without assessing whether she could return to work.

”A fair and reasonable employer could have investigated better by persevering to engage Ms Kindell and assemble all relevant information from the appropriate medical sources before making a final decision.”

So who is this bad employer who unfairly sacked a staff member for being sick? Will the unions run a name and shame campaign?

Well, as it is NZ’s largest union – the PSA, I guess not.