Sadly, this has already been in 2 contracts that I have worked on in NZ. Yes, pretty much a standard over here in Aus, but for those 2 contracts in NZ, I had to list all personal projects that I was working on at the start of my contract, otherwise, it belonged to the company.<div>
<br></div><div>In this day and age when the company has the utmost power over the employee (due to the financial situation and the oversupply of unemployed IT people), the company can call any shots it wants.</div><div><br>
</div><div>There have been several instances, very real over here, where the employer can hire a new employee and legally keep them on trial for up to a year, then simply fire them without explanation and without any legal issues at all, rather than pay contract rates. In one instance, the employer was able to fire people within their 3 months and hire another employee from another agency, rather than pay the agency fees.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A sad fact of the current financial situation. While that is starting to get a little better, there are signs that the full impact of the financial crisis has yet to happen, maybe mid next year - but I certainly hope that it's over and we've seen the last of it. As one agent put it here, if you could look out onto Sydney CBD streets and have all the people looking for work glow red, you'd need sunglasses to walk down the street.<br clear="all">
<br>Steve Peacocke</div><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Richard Vowles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@developers-inc.co.nz">richard@developers-inc.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">2009/9/16 Jolyon Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsmith@deltics.co.nz" target="_blank">jsmith@deltics.co.nz</a>></span><br>
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</div><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">I wouldn’t be at all
surprised to see NZ employment contracts change over time to be more in line with
that approach - the Utopia we enjoy today may not last forever. But as
long as it remains the case today then granted, the relevance of New Zealand
Sales Tax to New Zealand employees of New Zealand companies with employment
contracts that allow them to use their employer’s license without fear of
undesirable consequences is relatively minor.</span>
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</blockquote><div><br><br>That IMHO, would be sad. There are many home projects that have made it into the corporate space and out there as products because of work a person put in at home :-( I know Borland did this after one particular person (who happened to be a contractor) pushed his product at BorCon which made the situation difficult for everyone as so many of the developers had great ideas they wanted to explore outside of work.<br>
</div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">-- <br>---<br>Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor<br>Developers Inc Ltd<br>web. <a href="http://www.developers-inc.co.nz" target="_blank">http://www.developers-inc.co.nz</a><br>
ph. +64-9-3600231, mob. +64-275-467747, fax. +64-9-3600384<br>
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