{"id":40304,"date":"2022-01-04T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/new-zealand-covid-experts-take-legal-action-against-employer-over-alleged-failure-to-protect-them-from-abuse"},"modified":"2022-01-04T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:21:56","slug":"new-zealand-covid-experts-take-legal-action-against-employer-over-alleged-failure-to-protect-them-from-abuse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40304","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Covid experts take legal action against employer over alleged failure to protect them from abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy say they have been subject to \u2018vitriolic\u2019 harassment from small section of the public as a result of their work<\/p>\n<p>Two of New Zealand\u2019s most prominent Covid experts are taking legal action against their employer, the University of Auckland, over what they say is its failure to respond adequately to \u201charassment from a small but venomous sector of the public\u201d that is becoming \u201cmore extreme\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Siouxsie Wiles, an associate professor of medical science, and Shaun Hendy, a professor of physics, have filed separate complaints to the Employment Relations Authority, which last week ruled that they should proceed directly to the Employment Court due to the \u201chigh public interest\u201d in their Covid commentary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/new-zealand-covid-experts-take-legal-action-against-employer-over-alleged-failure-to-protect-them-from-abuse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy say they have been subject to \u2018vitriolic\u2019 harassment from small section of the public as a result of their workTwo of New Zealand\u2019s most prominent Covid experts are taking legal action against their employer, the Universi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40304\/revisions\/40305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}