Resources

This guide provides an overview on discrimination, the Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Tribunal.

Our premier guide to understanding how the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 works and how to avoid becoming liable for your employees activities.

This guide addresses what an employer’s obligations are when faced with an employee’s incapacity and how the situation should be managed.

This guide provides some indication of what incompatibility means, when and how the term should be used, and what your obligations are in managing an instance of it.

Information and communications technology policies (ICT policies) explain to your employees the intended use of all of your organisation’s information and communication technology, and what will constitute misuse and abuse.

This guide gives a general overview of what is involved in an IRD audit.

This guide outlines disobedience and insubordination and gives advice on how to manage both situations.

A brief description of the mediation facility available to employers and employees to resolve employment disputes.

This guide discusses the purpose and principles of the Official Information Act 1982.

Our premier guide to conducting performance management which includes a sample procedure.

This guide provides an overview of Personal Grievance claims against an employer, how they are raised, discussed, and potentially resolved.

This guide deals with the Privacy Act 2020 and concentrates on employers’ obligations to their employees and any other issues that arise out of employment.

The Act extends the definition of serious wrongdoing to cover the misuse of public funds and delivery of public services by the private sector. It also enables disclosers to report directly to an appropriate authority at any time

Deterrence is a good reason for including restraint of trade clauses in your employment agreements. This is a guide to understanding restraints of trade, including information on enforceability and what remedies are available for a breach.

This procedure applies to the resolution of all employment relationship problems and personal grievance matters within our organisation. You are reminded that an employment relationship problem is as defined in the Employment Relations Act 2000 and in your employment agreement

This guide discusses the emergence of social media in the workplace and the possible issues it may present at the different stages of the employment relationship.

This guide provides an overview of covert and overt surveillance in the workplace and considers an employer’s obligations involving privacy, trust, confidence and good faith.

This guide discusses the suspension of employees during disciplinary procedures and of both striking and non-striking employees during a strike.

This guide provides an overview of the circumstances that lead to termination and factors to consider when the employment relationship is ending.

Use this guide to understand the differences and benefits to a trial period and a probationary period and the conditions you must meet before you can successfully apply a trial period.