Chair
Jennifer Mills, Director – Head of Practice, Jennifer Mills & Associates; ‘Leading Individual’, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour
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Common Legal Workplace Challenges that Arise During Performance Management and How to Overcome them Effectively
- Understanding requirements: employers’ obligations and good faith
- Simplifying performance management: informal versus formal performance processes
- Strategies for dealing with difficult situations, including allegations of bullying that may arise during the performance management process
Presented by Nikita Bartlett, Associate, Duncan Cotterill
Learning Objectives:
- Understand legal obligations and best practices in performance management, including good faith and process requirements
- Learn how to address common challenges, including informal vs formal steps and bullying claims during performance reviews
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.
Nikita Bartlett, Associate, Duncan Cotterill
Nikita is an Associate in the Employment team at Duncan Cotterill assisting a wide range of clients at all stages of employment matters. Her expertise ranges from providing advice on personal grievances, bullying and harassment, restructuring and redundancies, disciplinary procedures, performance management, medical incapacity, advising on a variety of agreements and conducting sensitive workplace investigations. She also has experience with acting for and assisting with defending clients in the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court.
