Chair
Jennifer Mills, Director – Head of Practice, Jennifer Mills & Associates; ‘Leading Individual’, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
Learning Objectives:
- Understand employers' legal obligations under protected disclosure laws, including managing confidentiality and protections for disclosers
- Learn how to develop compliant policies and effectively investigate whistleblower reports while navigating Privacy Act considerations
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour
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Workplace Whistleblowers and Protected Disclosures: Recent Developments and Tips for Conducting an Effective Investigation
- An employer’s obligations as a receiver of a protected disclosure, including dealing with the protections which disclosers are entitled to
- Getting the policy documents and procedures right, with practical guidance and tips for dealing with disclosures
- Distinguishing between protected disclosures versus other complaints or concerns
- Privacy concerns and implications under the Privacy Act 2020
Presented by June Hardacre, Partner and Bonnie Simmonds, Senior Solicitor, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
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.
June Hardacre, Partner, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
June is an employment specialist who regularly advises both private and public sector clients on all aspects of New Zealand Employment law. Her practice includes advising on health and safety, remuneration and incentives, data protection, and employee privacy matters. June provides accessible and commercially sound advice to her clients and achieves outcomes for clients that do not compromise values. She has applied this approach during negotiations with unions on collective bargaining and industrial disputes, and while advising on conduct, bullying, and harassment investigations for a range of major New Zealand organisations.
Bonnie Simmonds, Senior Solicitor, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Bonnie is a Senior Solicitor in the employment team. Bonnie acts for clients on both advisory and contentious matters. She regularly assists clients to resolve complex workplace disputes by utilising technical proficiency and pragmatic thinking. She has experience working on a broad range of employment-related matters, including personal grievances, health and safety, the Holidays Act 2003, union bargaining and industrial disputes, restructures, and employment status disputes.
