Getting Ahead of Proposed Employment Law Reforms in 2025

Several major employment law reforms have been introduced through the Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2025 and, although they’re still under consideration, forward-thinking employers are already preparing for change. In this webinar you’ll hear from seasoned in-house employment lawyers who will unpack the proposed updates, explain what they could mean in practice, and share insights into how we could start thinking about translating this to fit within a business environment. Whether or not these reforms are enacted, understanding them now helps your business and clients get ahead and proactively plan for change.

Topics will include:

• Contractor classification
• Contributory conduct limits in personal grievance remedies
• $180k high-income threshold restricting dismissal claims
• Repeal of the 30-day rule in collective bargaining.

Learning objectives

By attending this webinar you will:

• Become familiar with upcoming proposed legislative changes.
• Be more confident in understanding how the proposed changes may impact your business or clients.
• Understand the preparation required to implement these changes in a practical way.

Who should attend

All employment law practitioners and all those whose work touches on employment relations.

Presenters

Anamika Sharma
Fletcher Building, Auckland

Anamika is an employment lawyer and workplace relations specialist with a diverse background across Australia and New Zealand. She partners with organisations to deliver pragmatic, commercially focused legal solutions while championing fair, inclusive, and high-performing workplaces. Alongside her advisory work, Anamika has a particular interest in optimising HR and legal operations by streamlining processes and leveraging AI tools to help teams work faster and smarter. She also contributes to employment law reform through her role on the New Zealand Law Society Employment Law Committee, helping to shape and design national employment law policy and practice.


Katherine Burson
Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland, Auckland

Katherine is an employment law and employment relations specialist with over 10 years’ experience of in-house roles in both the public and private sectors. Her current role as Employment Relations Manager and Legal Counsel sees her provide advice across a broad range of employment relations issues, supporting the organisation to maintain legal compliance and respond to the ever-changing employment relations environment. She enjoys supporting managers and employees to achieve resolution of employment relationship issues early, through mediation and other early-resolution processes. Katherine also has extensive experience in collective bargaining and managing industrial relations.
 

Resources

No book will be provided with this webinar.

Held online, you will be emailed a link to join the webinar one week before. For information on what is required to participate in the webinar, click here. PowerPoint slides will be emailed out after 3pm the day before the webinar.

Fee (Incl GST)

Law Society Members benefit from up to 30% off

• $205 – Law Society members & associate members
• $295 – Non-members
• View group pricing options

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CPD

• If you attended the live webinar, you will receive an electronic certificate of attendance as verification for your CPD records.
• You can view and hear the presentation again, as many times as you wish in your own time for no additional cost.

• Under the CPD Scheme only those who attend a live webinar are eligible to claim CPD hours.
• If you registered but were unable to attend on the day, you can view and hear the archived recording of the presentation.

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