New Zealand Employment Law Guide 2025 Edition

New Zealand Employment Law Guide provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the laws governing work, covering the duties and obligations of employers and employees, negotiating employment agreements, collective bargaining, health and safety at work, hours of work, pay and conditions, holidays... Read more

Publication date: Feb 2025

New Zealand Employment Law Guide 2024 Edition

Unlock the complexities of employment law with the New Zealand Employment Law Guide 2024 Edition. This comprehensive, plain-language guide is designed to clarify the laws governing employment relations, making it an invaluable resource for both employers and employees. Decisions of the Em... Read more

Published: Feb 2024

New Zealand Employment Law Guide 2023 Edition

This plain-language guide outlines and explains the laws which govern employment relations – including the duties and obligations of employers and employees, negotiating employment agreements, collective bargaining, health and safety at work, hours of work, pay and conditions, holidays, ter... Read more

Published: Jan 2023

Preventing Workplace Bullying and Harassment

Managers and supervisors are key people in organisations when it comes to the prevention of bullying and harassment. This handbook has been written to give them practical guidance and to answer some of the most common questions they ask:       How do I identify what is bul... Read more

Published: Nov 2022

Essential New Zealand Employment Legislation - 6th Edition

This valuable book brings together key employment legislation specifically selected for human resource practitioners, employment lawyers and advocates, union officials and students. Consolidated to 11 April 2022, Essential New Zealand Employment Legislation includes the privacy statute,  ... Read more

Published: May 2022

Due Diligence: Dealing with Regulators 3rd Edition

Dealing with Regulators. Managers need a strategic approach to engaging with work health and safety regulators. The third edition of Due Diligence: Dealing with Regulators further develops this approach adopted for the previous editions, but with the benefit of ten years' experience in ... Read more

Published: Apr 2021

Due Diligence: Horizontal and Vertical Consultation 3rd Edition

Ten years have passed since the landmark introduction of the model Work Health and Safety legislation. The experience in the seven jurisdictions that have adopted the reforms enables us to assess some of the predictions made at the time of the release of the first edition of Horizontal and Vertic... Read more

Published: Apr 2021

Due Diligence: Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking 3rd Edition

The Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) is at the centre of the legislative regime imposed by work health and safety laws. The scope of the duty of care for the PCBU is broad, with the extent of the duty expanding as prosecutions are brought and cases are decided. This third edi... Read more

Published: Apr 2021

Due Diligence: Worker Rights and Duties 3rd Edition

It has long been held that employers are liable for the negligent, reckless and disobedient employee. This book, however, is concerned with the liability of the workers themselves for that conduct. Workers have a key role in work health and safety. They and their colleagues bear the consequenc... Read more

Published: Apr 2021

Labour and Employment Law Manual - 3rd Edition

An essential strategic resource for anyone working in employment law, including lawyers, industrial and employment relations practitioners, human resource (HR) specialists, people managers and in-house HR counsel. This Manual assists readers in grappling with a range of strategic solutions to num... Read more

Published: Nov 2020

HR Manager — A New Zealand Handbook - 2nd Edition

HR Manager - A New Zealand Handbook is a practical and comprehensive guide to all key areas of human resources management in New Zealand. Providing up-to-date requirements for legal compliance, and essential guidance on good HR practice, this book will help organisations and HR professionals: ... Read more

Published: Sep 2019

Australian and NZ Master Work Health and Safety Guide

The Australian and New Zealand Master Work Health and Safety Guide is a practical guide for health and safety professionals, HR advisors, managers, lawyers, academics, students and others with responsibility or interest in workplace health and safety. With the combined work of over 60 authors,... Read more

Published: Dec 2018

The Big Issues in Employment: HR Management and Employment Relations in Australasia - 2nd Edition

Following the 2013 edition, which focused on New Zealand, this new volume examines the important issues within both human resources management (HRM) and employment relations (ER) in Australasia. The book actively seeks to raise academic, policy-maker and practitioner awareness of the key debates ... Read more

Published: May 2018

Guide to Holidays and Leave - 4th Edition

This guide deals with all the implications of the Holidays Act 2003 and more. It addresses the right to, and payment of, annual holidays, public holidays, sick leave and bereavement leave. The Act is set out, section by section. Expert commentary is provided on each provision of the Act, r... Read more

Published: Aug 2016

Essential New Zealand Employment Legislation - 5th Edition

This valuable book brings together key employment legislation specifically selected for human resource practitioners, employment relations specialists, union officials and students. Consolidated to 4 April 2016, Essential New Zealand Employment Legislation includes the new Health and Saf... Read more

Published: Jun 2016

Rewards, Remuneration and Performance: A Strategic Approach

We all respond to incentives to perform. This handy reference looks at the link between the way a business remunerates its employees and that business’s ability to gain competitive advantage. It explains practical performance-based strategies, including profit sharing, gain sharing, merit p... Read more

Published: Apr 2013

Termination of Employment: A Best Practice Guide - 2nd Edition

Please note that the printed version of this book is out of stock and no longer available. The eBook version is still available for purchase. Termination can be a costly exercise and it is essential that policies and procedures are in place to ensure that the law is complied with, the out... Read more

Michael Tooma on Mental Health

Mental health is one of the most difficult work related risks to manage. Despite being a part of the duty of care, most businesses find the challenge of managing mental health risks in the workplace overwhelming. Part of the difficulty is that the approach to mental health management to date has ... Read more

Due Diligence: Duty of Officers 3rd ed

Work health and safety laws impose a proactive duty on officers to exercise due diligence to ensure compliance with those laws. Due diligence is a duty imposed on officers personally. It is separate from the duty imposed on their company. The duty is also proactive - it can be breached merely ... Read more

Due Diligence: Incident Notification, Management and Investigation 3rd Edition

How you manage an incident, counts. An essential reference for individuals and companies looking to anticipate an incident and implement an effective incident management strategy that shapes the corporate response, through policies, procedures, training and resources. An incident presents a... Read more