Chair
Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts, Associate Professor in Law, Research Convenor
Learning Objectives:
- Understand employment and volunteer obligations specific to NFPs
- Learn strategies for managing performance, illness, and mental health risks
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Employment Law for Charities and Not for Profit Organisations
- Obligations relating to volunteers
- Managing performance issues with employees
- Managing short term and long-term illnesses in your workforce
- Employer obligations and liabilities for mental health in the workplace
Presented by Sarah Wadworth, Special Counsel, Lane Neave
Presenters
Sarah Wadworth, Special Counsel, Lane Neave
Sarah works within the Family and Employment Law teams at Lane Neave and has broad experience in dispute resolution. Before joining Lane Neave in 2024, Sarah was a Partner at a general practice firm in Blenheim, where she advised private and corporate clients on all aspects of the law and conducted a general litigation practice with an emphasis on employment and relationship property matters. Sarah has appeared and represented clients in mediations, the Employment Relations Authority, as well as the Family, District and High Courts on a wide range of claims.
Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts, PhD, PGCLT, LLM (Distinction), LLB(Hons), BA (Hons). Associate Professor in Law, Research Convenor and former Co-Director Waikato Public Law and Policy Research Unit
Juliet is a specialist in charity law, equity and trusts, and religious law. Juliet’s recent contributions to the literature includes the monographs "The Law of Religion in New Zealand" and the 2nd edition of the "Law of Charity" (with a 3rd edition on its way), and the OUP article "Advocating for the environment, charity law and Greenpeace: A New Zealand perspective". Juliet has authored 4 other books, several book chapters, numerous journal articles, as well as giving radio interviews and podcasts, and producing a number of commissioned reports.
