I help employees challenge their dismissals, raise personal grievances, deal with employers and their representatives, and negotiate realistic outcomes.
If something feels badly wrong about the way your manager handled your dismissal, you are in the right place.
Managers make a lot of mistakes with this. I know, because during my 30 years working in Employment Relations, I used to be the person helping employers deal with those mistakes.
Now I work only with New Zealand employees. I identify manager mistakes, assess how serious they are, and work out if your dismissal is strong enough to challenge.
If it is, I can help you challenge it. Not every manager mistake creates a strong case. What matters is the nature and seriousness of the mistakes, the effect they had on you, and if that made the dismissal unfair.
You have 90 days to raise a personal grievance. Make them count.
email: sacked@offrecord.co.nz
“$0 for the first call. If your case is strong enough and I take it on, I work on a no-win-no-fee basis.“
Need help urgently?
If you have just been sacked — especially on the spot, without warning, without a proper meeting, or for a reason that does not stack up — call me.
I’ll listen to the whole story, ask the questions that matter, and help you work out whether the dismissal is worth challenging and what to do next.
Tell Me What Happened
email for help now: sacked@offrecord.co.nz
YOU’VE LOST YOUR JOB. NOW YOU’RE TRYING TO WORK OUT WHAT JUST HAPPENED.
Was it unfair? Did your manager get it badly wrong? Do you have a case?
Maybe you were sacked on the spot, or dismissed after a poor process for reasons that did not stack up.
Maybe you were made redundant and something about it feels wrong. Or you were dismissed for misconduct, serious misconduct, performance, incapacity, or after a workplace complaint or investigation.
The question is not just if your manager made a mistake. It is whether the mistakes were serious enough, or there were enough of them, to make your dismissal unfair and worth challenging.
NOW I’M ON YOUR SIDE
Hi, I’m Mel. I’ve spent more than 30 years working in HR and Employment Relations. Now I use that experience to help employees who have been dismissed.
For years, I was the person trying to get managers to follow the rules, run fair processes and make the right decisions.
I also saw what happened when they got it wrong.
Now I work only with employees on the receiving end of those decisions.
I know what managers are supposed to do before they dismiss someone. I know the mistakes they commonly make. And I know the difference between a technical error and a mistake that may genuinely affect whether the dismissal was fair.
My job is to work out what went wrong, which of their mistakes matter most, and whether your dismissal is strong enough to challenge.
And if it is, I can help you challenge it.
I can raise the personal grievance, deal directly with your employer and their representatives, negotiate on your behalf, and represent you at mediation if that is where the case needs to go.
You do not have to deal with your employer and their representatives on your own. If your dismissal is worth challenging, I can help you do it properly.
Let’s hold them accountable together.
You only have 90 days. Make them count.
Don’t waste them trying to work it out alone.
$0 for the first call. If your case is strong enough and I take it on,
I work on a no-win-no-fee basis.
Hear from some of the people I’ve helped get through tough times at work.
“Melony, before we connected, I was starting to think there were no good, kind people left in the world. You changed my mind. Thank you for your professionalism and for helping me through this.”
“Melony’s friendly and professional manner put me at ease and gave me confidence. She was very transparent in giving professional answers, real expectations, and a realistic timeline where we could move forward. We won our case. “
“Mel was amazing support to me throughout what was a difficult situation. Her wisdom of experience really shone and she was able to ensure that I was heard. So thankful for her help, highly recommend!”