Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
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Learning Objectives:
- Review key employment law decisions from 2024 and their impact on workplace obligations and practices
- Identify upcoming cases and legal trends likely to shape employment law developments in 2025
Chair
Jennifer Mills, Director – Head of Practice, Jennifer Mills & Associates; ‘Leading Individual’, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
Decisions that Shaped Employment Law in 2024 and What's in Store for 2025?
- Case law developments over the past 12 months
- Leading employment decisions
- Cases of interest for hearing in 2025
Presented by Tim Clarke, Barrister, Richmond Chambers
Presenters
Jennifer Mills, Director – Head of Practice, Jennifer Mills & Associates
Jennifer Mills is one of New Zealand's leading employment and health and safety lawyers, with extensive experience in employment litigation, industrial relations, health and safety, complex restructures, large-scale Holidays Act issues, executive remuneration and regulation, executive exits, and immigration. Jennifer advises clients on all employment-related matters including drafting employment agreements and HR policies, managing poor performance, restructuring and redundancy, disciplinary investigations, and dismissals, leave entitlements and secondments. She also advises on fixed term employment arrangements, independent contractor arrangements, KiwiSaver and superannuation, collective bargaining, establishing businesses in New Zealand, recruiting employees, and restraints of trade and other post termination obligations. She has been listed as a 'leading individual' in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 directory, a ‘market leader’ in the Chambers Asia Pacific directory and is rated one of the leading employment lawyers in the world, by Chambers Global.
Tim Clarke, Barrister, Richmond Chambers
Tim Clarke is an experienced litigator with a specialist focus on employment and workplace safety law. His practice spans advocacy in the courts of general jurisdiction (including appellate courts), the Employment Court and Employment Relations Authority, Human Rights Review Tribunal, mediation, and workplace investigations. Tim accepts instructions to act as counsel, mediator in relation to employment disputes, or to conduct independent workplace investigations. Tim is an Associate Member of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ) and the Resolution Institute. He is also a member of the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI). He has been a member of the Health and Safety Committee of The Law Association (formerly ADLS) from 2016 to the present and is a member of the Employment Law and Privacy Committee of the New Zealand Bar Association.
