Employment law
Our employment lawyers provide constructive advice and pragmatic solutions for all employment, health and safety, and education law issues. We have advised and represented both employers and employees in workplace conflict and dispute resolution.
We provide cost effective specialist advice on the following matters:
- Disciplinary processes and performance management
- Personal grievances for unjustified dismissal, disadvantage and suspension
- Redundancy and restructuring
- Employment agreements and workplace policies
- Collective bargaining and disputes
- Minimum employment standards including Holidays Act
- Workplace bullying and investigations
- Health and safety
- Restraints of trade, confidentiality and intellectual property
- Privacy issues
- Holidays Act compliance
- Human rights and discrimination
- Representation at Mediation, Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court and the Human Rights Commission
- Education law and Education Council investigations
Read our articles on employment law
A million-dollar mistake – the Employee who tried to steal his Employer’s supplier
16 September 2026
Both employers and employees have good faith and fidelity obligations to each other during the employment relationship. Adherence to these is not optional, and failure to do so can result in serious consequences for the breaching party. In this article, Evanna Lafferty outlines why an employee in a recent Employment Court case was ordered to pay almost one-million dollars in damages to his employer for breaching these obligations.
Breach of Privacy Principles costs employer $30,000
24 September 2025
Cummings v KAM Transport Limited [2025] NZHRRT 9 serves a timely reminder that claims under the Privacy Act 2020 could have significant financial consequences for employers.
