WRC declines jurisdiction over five workers’ written-terms complaints

The WRC declined jurisdiction over five complaints by workers seeking written terms of employment. The decision was dated 15 August 2016; the merits were not decided. The workers said they were employees under contracts of service and asked the employer to confirm their status and provide written terms. The employer denied that they were employees. The adjudicator said the Act did not empower the WRC to determine their employment status, and the employer did not consent to a proposed preliminary assessment of the contractual relationship.