Tuesday, 26 August 2025
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
Chair
Megan Vant, Special Counsel, Dundas Street Employment Lawyers
*Original Content was created in November 2024
Managing Employees who Become Ill During a Performance or Misconduct Process
- Strategies for managing situations where employees become unwell during an employment process
- Recognising when it is necessary to pause the process
- Seeking further advice from medical professionals
- Identifying the appropriate time to consider a different course of action, such as medical incapacity
Presented by Jessica Taylor, Senior Associate, Buddle Findlay
Learning Objectives:
- Understand when and how to pause or adapt processes due to employee illness
- Learn how to manage legal and medical complexities that may arise mid-process
Presenters
Megan Vant, Special Counsel, Dundas Street Employment LawyersMegan is a highly skilled and intelligent lawyer, specialising in employment law. She has significant experience acting for both employers and employees and is well versed in the legislation affecting the application of employment law. She builds strong relationships with clients and takes a pragmatic and solutions focused approach, successfully navigating complex issues. Her advice is both academic and straightforward, ensuring that the law is understood and applied in a manner that is practical and strategic for her clients. Megan is nationally recognised as a leading authority in New Zealand in the areas of pay equity and equal pay and has represented clients in leading edge litigation in this novel area of law. She has been with Dundas Street Employment Lawyers since the firm was established in 2013 and also has experience working in-house in both central and local government.
Jessica Taylor, Senior Associate, Buddle Findlay
Jessica specialises in employment, health and safety, privacy and official information, health, litigation and dispute resolution. Jessica advises on a wide range of employment matters including personal grievances, restructuring and redundancy, investigations, disciplinary processes, performance management, medical incapacity, health and safety and pay equity. Jessica regularly attends mediation and acts in proceedings in the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court. She also regularly assists with health, privacy and official information and human rights matters.
