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Category: Legal opinions

As part of your exclusive FHTA membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation. These tend to be generally in areas of HR/IR.

In this Members Only section, we will provide some clarification on matters that may be of interest to FHTA members and will update this as often as possible.

Legal Opinion on Wage Increase, Union Negotiation and ERP

April 19, 2023October 11, 2025 Glen Vavaitamana Legal opinions association, fiji, hotel, law, legal, tourism
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

Sorry, but you do not have permission to view this content. If you think this is an error, please email or call the FHTA Secretariat admin@FHTA.com.fj , t: 330 2980 (charlesmcdaniel.co)

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Standing Down of Workers and Family Care Leave

April 29, 2020October 11, 2025 Cheryl Fong Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

1. We refer to your email of 21st April 2020 seeking our legal views on two issues, mainly: (i) Whether an employer can “suspend a worker’s employment contract” without pay

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Annual Leave Pay Calculation

March 25, 2020October 11, 2025 Cheryl Fong COVID-19, Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

Our views are requested on which wage / salary rate should be used to calculate leave pay during the implementation of “wage / salary  reduction”. Our views are discussed below:

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DETERMINATION OF THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS TRIBUNAL 27 SEP 2019, REGARDING RETIREMENT AGE

December 2, 2019October 11, 2025 Cheryl Fong Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

An FHTA member has kindly allowed the following ruling to be shared with other members: The following employment dispute was reported to the Permanent Secretary on 19 Feb 2019 and

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Companies Act 2015 and Regulations

July 9, 2018October 14, 2025 Cheryl Fong Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

The following are the procedures and requirements under the Companies Act 2015, Companies (Amendment) Act 2016 and Companies Regulations 2015 with regards to:- a. company name changes required to include (for

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Validity of Employment Contract of Union a Member

May 8, 2018October 14, 2025 Cheryl Fong Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation
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Summary of Legal Opinion – February 2018

February 1, 2018October 11, 2025 FHTASecretariat Legal opinions

Legal Opinion Issue: Whether an employee who has been granted leave without pay is entitled to claim annul leave pay. How the annual leave pay is computed The case: A

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Summary of Legal Opinions 2016 – 2017

January 16, 2018October 23, 2025 Cheryl Fong Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

The Association regularly seeks legal advice on behalf of their members to clarify issues in the Employment Relations Act (ERA), confirm legislative and regulatory processes and policies and support their

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Payment of Licensing Fee to Fiji Performing Right Association Limited For Public Performance

August 5, 2017February 5, 2019 Cheryl Fong Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

Memorandum of Opinion

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Cameras in Hotels

August 4, 2017August 30, 2024 Cheryl Fong Legal opinions
As part of our membership benefits, we provide legal opinions on many areas of concern for clarification and interpretation

Legal Advice In absence at any express provision in relation to what constitutes a breach of private life, we advise that hotels are at liberty to install cameras on their premises

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