Resources

This guide covers jury service from an employment context including deferral, excusal and fees.

The term "minimum employment code” is often found in case law and legislation. It refers to those laws that protect the basic rights of employees (and in some instances, other people) in New Zealand to minimum standards of employment.

Your guide to using pre-employment checks to confirm that an applicant is suited to the position offered, and be able to identify where they may be considered discriminatory.

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.

This guide sets out some of the issues around qualifications in respect to verification and misrepresentation.

Use this guide to understand the two-step process of recruiting the best pool of candidates, then selecting the most appropriate person for your vacancy.

Understand how to establish the validity of a reference, the privacy constraints in regards to collecting information through references, obligations when providing a reference and obligations when obtaining a reference.

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.

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.

Undue influence and duress are two terms that have significance outside employment law; both are equitable remedies that allow one party to escape from a contract.

Our premier guide to understanding volunteers. This includes understanding the difference between volunteers and employees, as well as tax implications when volunteers are rewarded for their services.

When employees who are in the territorial or reserve forces go on protected voluntary service their employment is protected. This guide discusses what an employer needs to do in such a case.