This is one of our advanced Employment law workshops. It is designed for:
- Australian HR teams who are responsible for New Zealand, and now having to deal with more advanced and complex employment law issues.
- NZ HR professionals who have a strong ER component in their role and need to know these areas in more detail.
Workshop contents:
This workshop covers:
- The legislative issues around employees who raise a Personal Grievance (PG)
- How to respond to a PG, assessing the situation and risk analysis
- The law around Settlement Agreements, how and when to use them, the HR issues that you need to plan for and a real case study so if you are writing a Settlement, you know the exact wording you need to use
- How mediation works. We take you through a case study to prepare for mediation. You’ll learn what documentation to prepare, how to advise and support managers who are attending with you and what do to on the day of mediation.
Workshop dates & times
For dates and times for the PG’s, Settlements and Mediation workshop, please visit our Advanced ER Workshop page. This has details of all four workshops.
Our Facilitators
Nikki Peck
Nikki has over 20 years of generalist HR experience working in diverse sectors such as health, engineering, utilities, retail and not-for-profit. She always receives fantastic feedback from managers and HR people for making any workshop she runs interesting, entertaining and extremely useful – sharing practical real life examples and answering curly questions. Nikki also runs her own HR consultancy business working with small businesses to help them build culture, work through change and deal with a myriad of HR challenges.
Ilze Walton
Ilze has a blend of experience working within and consulting to different types of organisations from professional services, public services and small businesses/ startups. She specialises in leadership and culture, organisational design, change management, and strategy. As an accredited coach and practitioner, Ilze has experience diagnosing organisational effectiveness, and implementing culture and behavioural change solutions. She has a Bachelor of Business, majoring in Human Resources Management and is the founder of the people co-lab.
Laura Trethewey
Laura has an HR career that includes roles with Wilson Hellaby, Walter and Wild and Auckland Meat Processors.
She founded People Ninja’s in 2020 to provide innovative and adaptive HR solutions to businesses.
Laura has expertise in HR, Health and Safety and Learning and Development. She prides herself in being pragmatic, creative and transparent in the way she works and has a Bachelor of Business in HR and Employment Relations.
Mike Mercer
Mike is a Senior Solicitor in Simpson Grierson’s Wellington office. Mike has experience in all aspects of employment law – advising on health and safety, disciplinary and dismissal processes, drafting employment agreements and workplace policies, personal grievance issues, performance management and holidays and leave issues.
Angela Evans
Angela Evans is a partner at BE Employment Law, a newly established specialist firm she co-founded. She has over 15 years as an employment lawyer providing clear, practical advice in all areas of HR. Angela has presented at elephant conferences and workshops for several years and gets rave reviews for her presentations and advice.
Melanie Brewer
Melanie is an experienced and passionate HR Practitioner with 14+ years’ experience who has worked in the public and private sectors across the full range of HR disciplines ranging from ER to HR Strategy. She started her career in law, which included 4 years as an employment lawyer, before she made the leap into HR.
Elephant workshops are practical, outcome-based learning sessions so you’ll leave with useful, real-life tools and templates to use when you get back to work. We also have some great discussions and a bit of fun (yes even learning employment law!). We also answer any questions you have with practical solutions and ideas you can really use.
That’s why our workshops are different! We cover the legislation but also how to apply it, and all our facilitators are both employment law experts but have also worked in HR.
What people say about attending:
Thank you, I feel better able to talk with my managers and give advice more clearly and back up with good rationale. I really liked how Nikki gave us good examples on how to phrase your advice to your manager without getting them off-side
Learning about justifications re some of the case law – good to know why a decision was made, course was awesome thank you
A fantastic course overall. The fact that I came away with some essential knowledge meant I could come into work and confidently make changes
The Elephant team really know their stuff and are happy to answer every little niggling question I had
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