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The consequences of getting it wrong: volunteer or employee?

November 13, 2025: | Lane Neave | The Gloriavale situation is a great example of how wrongly categorising your employees, or failing to pay minimum entitlements correctly, could potentially be financially disastrous. In late October, the Court of Appeal heard an appeal against a 2023 Employment Court judgment that six former residents of…

Articles, Education

Gloriavale granted extra week to answer Education Ministry concerns

November 7, 2025: | RNZ | Jean Edwards | Gloriavale has been given another week to respond to Ministry of Education concerns about student safety, as officials consider closing the West Coast Christian community’s school. Secretary for Education Ellen MacGregor-Reid wrote to the private school last month, advising that she was considering cancelling…

Articles, Education

Ministry grants Gloriavale school seven more days to justify staying open

November 7, 2025: | NZ Herald | Neil Reid | Gloriavale has been given a seven-day extension to provide education officials with a response why the religious commune’s private school should be allowed to remain open. The Ministry of Education (MOE) last month put Gloriavale on notice that its school was on the…

Articles, Education

Deadline day: Will the Government move to close the school at the Gloriavale religious community?

November 6, 2025: | NZ Herald | Neil Reid | West Coast schools are investigating how they will upscale and absorb the children of Gloriavale if the Government decides to close the religious commune’s school. Commune leaders have a hard deadline of tomorrow to convince the Ministry of Education (MoE) that its extreme…

Articles, Videos

5 Servings of Truth – Pearl Valor – Gloriavale leaver and advocate

November 2, 2025: | From fear to freedom | Former 2×2 Cult member (NZ) | Episode content…

Articles, Legal: Girls' Employment Case

Gloriavale’s working structure resembles a ‘sweatshop’ – lawyer

October 30, 2025: | RNZ | Bill Hickman | People born into the Gloriavale community are trapped into a working structure resembling “a sweatshop”, lawyers for former members say. But counsel for the Christian community told the Court of Appeal this week that members did not expect to be paid, and were supported…

Articles, Legal: Girls' Employment Case

Gloriavale a ‘very sharp business model’ designed to exploit cheap labour, Court of Appeal told

October 30, 2025: | Law News | Neil Sands | The Gloriavale religious community is an industrial-scale “sweatshop”, designed to exploit the cheap labour and welfare payments of its members, the Court of Appeal has been told. The court is hearing an appeal against a 2023 Employment Court ruling that six former Gloriavale…

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Gloriavale worker decision appealed by community leader

October 28, 2025: | RNZ | Bill Hickman | Gloriavale members worked to support a communal ethos – eschewing personal possessions or gain, lawyers for the leader of the community have told the Court of Appeal in Wellington Community leader Howard Temple is appealing an Employment Court decision which found workers at the…

Articles, Videos

‘Horrendous’: Why a senior government minister isn’t ruling out closing Gloriavale

October 28, 2025: | NZ Herald | Michael Morrah | Listen to Michael Morrah discuss the situation with Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston. Authorities are now visiting the isolated West Coast sect multiple times a week.…

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Minister won’t rule out closing Gloriavale amid ‘horrendous’ abuse claims

October 28, 2025: | NZ Herald | Michael Morrah | A senior government minister has not ruled out closing Gloriavale, saying revelations in the Herald about a child disciplinary technique – likened to suffocation – are “horrendous”. It comes as the Herald has discovered authorities are currently visiting Gloriavale “multiple” times a week and a new high-powered…

The consequences of getting it wrong: volunteer or employee?

Gloriavale granted extra week to answer Education Ministry concerns

Ministry grants Gloriavale school seven more days to justify staying open

Deadline day: Will the Government move to close the school at the Gloriavale religious community?

5 Servings of Truth – Pearl Valor – Gloriavale leaver and advocate

Gloriavale’s working structure resembles a ‘sweatshop’ – lawyer

Gloriavale a ‘very sharp business model’ designed to exploit cheap labour, Court of Appeal told

Gloriavale worker decision appealed by community leader

‘Horrendous’: Why a senior government minister isn’t ruling out closing Gloriavale

Minister won’t rule out closing Gloriavale amid ‘horrendous’ abuse claims

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