Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
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Chair
Jennifer Mills, Director – Head of Practice, Jennifer Mills & Associates; ‘Leading Individual’, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
Managing Investigations and Staff Discipline
- Investigations, the when, where, how, who and why?
- Employment issues
- Confidentiality and privacy constraints
- Investigation findings, and what next
- Case law examples
Presented by Andrew Scott-Howman, Barrister/Workplace Investigator, Port Nicholson Chambers, and co-author of the Thomson Reuters text “Workplace Bullying in New Zealand”
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to lawfully conduct workplace investigations, including process requirements, privacy obligations, and legal risks
- Learn how to manage post-investigation decisions and disciplinary action, supported by case law examples
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.
Andrew Scott-Howman, Barrister/Workplace Investigator, Port Nicholson Chambers
Andrew Scott-Howman is a Wellington based barrister specialising in workplace investigations. He is a graduate of the Association of Workplace Investigator's Training Institute and a member of that specialist interest organisation. He is also a co-author of the Thomson Reuters text "Workplace Bullying in New Zealand". He acts as investigator in both the public and private sectors, and has wide experience in investigating bullying, sexual harassment, and sexual misconduct claims.
