Employment

Issues covered include: Dealing with a complaint; Conducting the investigation from the Terms of Reference, interview planning, interview techniques, difficult parties and wintesses, anaysis of evidence and making findings

Issues covered include: Pre-Employment Issues & Creating Fair and Inclusive Company Policy, Discrimination Claims

The decision to dismiss an employee needs to be carefully considered because employees have rights and employers have obligations. Gain practical strategies on how to handle employee misconduct, the process of redundancy and how to effectively negotiate settlement agreements.

Issues covered include: employment agreements, faith based organisations, church, pastors, ministers

Issues covered include: Health and Safety at Work Act, fines, undertakings, workplace investigations

Issues covered include: Employment Relations (Triangular Employment) Amendment Act 2019, restructures, misconduct, employment relations authority, contractor rights

Employment law issues are currently front and centre with employees adapting to the new way of working and businesses doing their best to survive. This 6 part series will examine good faith in restructuring and redundancies, work-from-home arrangements, restraint of trade and protecting confidential information, recent cases and the Holidays Act, employee performance management, medical incapacity, bullying and harassment. Choose the session most relevant to you or attend them all.

You will examine good faith, genuine reasons, and reasonable processes when advising on restructuring or redundancies.

Attend and unpack the legalities and risks associated with employee ‘work from home’ arrangements.

Gain a deeper understanding of the legal framework around protecting confidential information and enforcing restraint of trade.

Attend and you will receive a timely update on the Holidays Act reform and a critique of the consequences of the Metropolitan Glass Decision.

You will gain a thorough understanding on how to effectively implement processes to effectively advise on how to performance manage an employee.

The process for terminating an employees’ employment due to their long term illness or injury and factors that need to be considered. Also, what employers need to do to prevent bullying in the workplace and what to do if a complaint of bullying is made.

In this interactive online workshop you will run through the key issues you need to consider when dealing with workplace agreements in light of COVID-19 and important recent cases. Explore legal principles relating to the drafting of employment agreement and enforcement so that you are fully equipped to recognise, avoid and eliminate loopholes in your existing and future agreements.

WEB213NZA24: The decision to dismiss an employee needs to be carefully considered because employees have rights, employers have obligations and you have a duty to properly advise your clients. Gain practical strategies on how to handle a termination by looking at the steps needed to effectively preform a disciplinary investigation, the process of restructure or redundancy, what to do if you encounter a mental health issue mid-process and how to effectively negotiate settlement agreements.

WEB213NZA09: 6 years in, we are now starting to see the courts consider the finer points of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Attend this webinar and you will review recent case law and examine the emerging trends in wake of the pandemic.

WEB213NZA10: As a legal professional, you will frequently work with people and families who have past or present issues regarding mental health, cognitive functioning and adverse trauma reactions. Over time working within the legal profession can also affect our own mental health and functioning. This highly practical programme will be delivered by a consultant clinical psychologist to provide insight into how to recognise and address this mental health issue when it arises.

WEB213NZA12: Examine the process of redundancies, highlight red flags and risk, examine how to manage unilateral variations, and with the benefit of recent case law, help you to ‘future-proof’ employment relations in your client’s or your business.

213NZA39: Managing an employment dispute can be like a game of chess. Given that 95% of cases settle at mediation, it is in your interest that you make the right moves to reach an optimum outcome as early as possible. In this highly practical afternoon workshop you will hear from employment law experts John Farrow and Malcolm Couling who will take a deep dive into the tactical steps leading up to an appearance at the ERA.

Huge changes in employment law over the last 12 months mean you need to stay up to date to ensure you can properly advise your clients. Receive a critical update on pandemic related cases – where is employment law now and where is it going? Examine recent developments on pay equity, triangular employment relationships, restraints of trade and protections for dependant contractors. WEB215NZA01