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Employment Law Seminar
This month Bell Gully held employment law seminars in both Auckland and Wellington. Led and facilitated by members of our employment law team, the sessions covered a range of developments and issues in the employment law area.
In June, the Supreme Court decision in the Three Foot Six case confirmed the distinction between employees and contractors. We discussed this influential employment law case and its implications for employers.
The seminars covered recent and proposed legislation and its impact for employers, including The Clean Slate Act which conceals past convictions under certain circumstances, the Flexible Working Hours Bill which allows certain parents the right to request part-time or flexible working hours and changes to parental leave and smokefree legislation.
In light of the 2005 general election, there was also discussion on the policy of different political parties on employment law issues-particularly the impact of the National Party's proposed Employment Agreements Act which would repeal the Employment Relations Act 2004.
The selected HR topics discussed in our Wellington seminar included: email and internet policies and the legalities of recruiting: job advertising, reference checking and job application documentation.
The selected HR topics discussed in our Auckland seminar included: good faith bargaining and MECA bargaining, facilitation, employee protection and justification for dismissal.
You can view the slides from the seminars by clicking the following links:
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