Friday, 5 September 2025
Learning Objectives:
- Understand employer obligations under the Employment Relations Act 2000 during restructures, including employee protections and consultation duties
- Identify and manage legal risks related to transfers, privacy, holidays, and rights of vulnerable employees
*Original Content was created in August 2024
Chair
Jodi Sharman, Partner, Hesketh Henry
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
Restructuring Obligations Under the Employment Relations Act 2000
- What constitutes a ‘restructuring’: business sale, contracting in, contracting out & subsequent contracting
- Outgoing employer obligations: employee protection provisions and consultation
- When to consult: Before or after sale agreement signed?
- The right to withhold confidential information: Matsas v Birthing Centre
- Additional rights for vulnerable’ employees: subsequent contracting
- Incoming employer obligations
- Holidays Act issues: transfer of leave entitlements
- Privacy Act issues: transfer of employee personal information
- 'Transfers' of employees between related companies
Presented by Carl Blake, Partner, DLA Piper
Presenters
Jodi Sharman, Partner, Hesketh HenryJodi is a Partner in the Employment Law team at Hesketh Henry, and has been practising employment law for more than 15 years. Jodi has considerable experience in working with employees, employers and unions on a wide range of employment law matters and litigation issues. Jodi has appeared in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court, District Court and High Court, and frequently represents clients in negotiations and mediations. Jodi is a member of The Law Association, and its Employment Law Committee, as well as the New Zealand Law Society. Her expertise in the employment law sector has been recognised by the major legal directories, including Chambers Asia-Pacific. Jodi enjoys the people factor in employment law and being involved in the employment law issues facing clients who operate in different industries and professions. She brings a pragmatic approach to legal issues with a focus on client communication and delivering practical and commercial outcomes.
Carl Blake, Partner, DLA Piper
Carl is a partner in DLA Piper’s employment practice. He provides strategic advice on all aspects of employment law, including corporate restructures, sales and purchases of businesses, personal grievances, employment agreements and policies, health and safety, human rights and privacy, accident compensation, and collective bargaining. Carl has regular appearances at mediations and hearings before the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court.
