Workplace & IR

Employment Law Reforms: The Changes Keep Coming...

Issues covered include: Employee, share schemes, fair pay agreements, holidays Act, parental leave, employment legislation

Immigration Law: Business, Employment and IACDT

Issues covered include: Investor and business residence categories, Immigration and Protection Tribunal, IPT, employment, employer, Employment Relations Authority, ERA, ANZSCO, ethic, Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal, IACDT, licensing

Workplace Investigation Workshop Auckland

Rural Law and Agribusiness Summit

Issues covered include: Diffuse Discharges from Farming, Maori Land considerations, Environmental & planning, ETS, Overseas Investment Act in a Rural, Employment Law, Insolvency, Dispute resolution, Worksafe NZ, Trust Restructuring and Resettlements, Trustee powers, succession planning.

Employment Law and Health & Safety Update

Issues covered include: domestic violence, surveillance, fair pay agreements, case update, developments in heallth & safety

Immigration Law Update

Issues covered include: immigration law, immigration policy and procedure, immigration case law update, character issues, skilled migrant applications, work visas

Workplace Investigations in Schools: Getting it Right

If you’ve spent any time working in a school you know that seemingly anything can happen at any time and you need to know exactly how to handle an incident from when it first occurs all the way through the investigation process. Attend this seminar and consider the policies and procedures you need to have in place before an incident occurs and then work through the step by step process of completing an effective and comprehensive investigation.

Lunch and Learn Series: A Practical Guide to Employment Mediation

We get it – you’re busy. But you also need your CPD Hours, and it never hurts to spend time elevating your practice and bringing it up to speed in the modern legal market. So we’ve put together a convenient, efficient and practical lunchtime web series to catch you up on the essential updates needed to bolster your practice, all from the comfort of your home or office.

Employment Law Update

Many recent legislative changes and legal developments in employment law simply must be considered, understood and addressed in current practice to ensure your clients are properly advised. Our experts will bring you up to speed with the most important issues in employment law with an afternoon of practical and timely insights.

Employment Law: Critical Updates

Issues covered include: bullying and harrassment, bully policies, Health and Safety at Work Act, WorkSafe, ERA, collective bargaining, Fair Pay Agreements, Holidays Act Audits, Labour audit

Appearing in the Employment Relations Authority

Issues covered include: Employment Relations Authority procedures, applications, evidence, appearances

Employment Agreements Intensive

Issues covered include: employment agreements, confidentiality and IP clauses, employment surveillance clauses, drafting non-compete clauses, non-solicitation clauses, restraint clauses, enforcement of employment agreements

Immigration Law Conference in Wellington

In the constantly evolving world of immigration law, it is paramount that you stay on top of the latest changes that affect your clients. Join leading immigration experts and advisors to unravel the key policy and legislative updates and explore the crossover between immigration and employment. Attend the full day to receive practical insights in navigating the legal issues that arise if your client is faced with deportation.

Workplace Investigations in the Public Sector

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

In-House Counsel Summit

"Issues covered include: privacy Consumer Law Update; employment law update; employment agreements; IP, Leading Transformative Change, Operations Issue covered included:The New Privacy Era, New Zealand Consumer Law Update, Employment Law: Recent Changes and Cases, Negotiating Employment Agreements: Watertight or Full of Holes?,IP Considerations for In-House Counsel,In-House Counsel Leading Transformative Change, Strategies to Improve In-House Legal Operations.

Discrimination Claims in Employment

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

Terminating Employment: Problems

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.

Employment and Religion in Focus

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

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 in Focus

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

Employment Law: Critical “Post Bubble” Changes

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

Employment Law Series

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.

Mastering Restructuring and Redundancies

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

Permanent Work from Home Arrangements (WFH): Employment Issues

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

Restraints of Trade and Protection of Confidential Information

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

Update on the Holidays Act and the Implications of the Recent Metropolitan Glass Decision

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

Performance Management: Process, PIPs and Alternatives

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

Managing Medical Incapacity, Bullying and Harassment

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.

POSTPONED: Redundancies: The Next Wave…

The end of the wage subsidy means that more redundancies are on the horizon. This programme will dissect 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.

Employment Agreements: Drafting and Enforcement Workshop

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.

Terminating Employment

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.

Navigating Health and Safety Law in 2021

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.

Dealing with Trauma as a Legal Professional

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.

Redundancies: Red Flags, Risks and Variations

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.

Employment Disputes: Strategies for Effective Case Management

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.

Employment Law: Critical Issues, Updates and Changes

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

Working with Maori

Hear from experts working at the forefront of Māori development as they consider how iwi and hapū can partner with the public and private sector in order to build a sustainable asset portfolio. Reflect on the integration of Tikanga Māori into law in New Zealand and the Māori values and issues in environmental and employment law. Plus, consider te Ao Māori and its relevance to New Zealand business. WEB219NZA02

Employment Law Series 2021

In this in-depth 5 part employment law series you will cover recent developments in bullying and harassment, stay updated on recent cases, ensure your employment agreements are watertight, consider the interaction of employment law and human rights and look at the current state of play in relation to restraint of trade. Choose the session most relevant to you or attend them all. WEB2110NZA01

Employment Law Series 2021: Recent Developments in Bullying and Harassment

Ensure you and your clients are up to date on recent developments relating to bullying and harassment in the workplace. WEB2110NZA01A

Employment Law Series 2021: Employment Agreements Update: What You Need to Know

In this highly practical hour you will look at the critical aspects of drafting and enforcing employment agreements, together with the latest information on what is new in this area. WEB2110NZA01B

Employment Law Series 2021: Update on Recent Employment Law Cases

Attend and receive a valuable update on the ‘hot’ employment law cases that have been decided over the last year, and what you need to know in your everyday practice. WEB2111NZA01C