Employment Law Changes 2025 – Practical Insights

Stay informed on legal updates that could impact your employer obligations and client advice. Find out how the Government’s changes to employment law legislation could affect your organisation this year

Join our webinar for practical insights on employment law changes in 2025.

Stay informed on legal changes that could impact on your employer obligations and how you advise clients this year.

This practical session provides clear guidance on employment law updates for professional advisers, HR professionals, business owners, in-house counsel, and people leaders.

Learn how to manage and implement the following legislative changes within your workplace:

• Minimum wages increased from 1 April 2025
• Criminalisation of wage theft, making it a criminal offence for employers to deliberately withhold wages
• New requirement to provide employees with easy access to their employment agreements
• Increased threshold for pay equity claims, which could impact claims in female-dominated industries

We’ll also cover key upcoming and proposed reforms, including:

• Clarification of employee vs contractor status through a proposed “gateway test”
• Simplification of the personal grievance process and changes to eligibility of remedies for anyone who contributed to a personal grievance
• Changes to personal grievance remedies, with restrictions on compensation where serious misconduct or employee contribution is found
• Protected negotiations to occur between an employer and an employee, allowing them to agree to terminate an employee's contract
• Restrictions on unjustified dismissal claims for high-income earners
• Planned amendments to the Holidays Act, including shifting from entitlement-based to accrual-based leave

Don’t miss this essential employment law update to help you support your organisation and clients with confidence.

This practical session covers key legal changes from the past 12 months and upcoming reforms that could significantly impact employers’ obligations.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Attendees will gain clarity on the latest employment law changes, including:

• Increases to minimum wages
• How to update employment processes to reflect recent law changes
• The impact of these changes on hiring, managing and terminating staff
• How to reduce legal risk when managing pay, leave, and dismissals
• Insights into upcoming reforms, so you can plan proactively and prepare your HR team and leadership
• Simplification of personal grievances and remedies

Participants will take away practical strategies to effectively manage and implement legal changes.

SUITED TO

This webinar is ideal for anyone who needs to understand and manage employment law changes in their workplace or on behalf of clients.

It is useful for legal and business advisers, in-house counsel, business owners, HR professionals, and people managers.

PRESENTER

Julia Shallcrass, Director and Lawyer/Employment Law Educator, KiwiBoss Limited

Julia is an employment and privacy lawyer with over 17 years of experience in legal education. As founder of KiwiBoss, she helps HR professionals, managers, and leaders navigate workplace challenges while ensuring compliance with employment laws. Known for her practical and engaging training style, Julia delivers in-house and public courses both virtually and across New Zealand. KiwiBoss training helps participants develop clear, actionable strategies for improving productivity. She’s also an employment columnist for the NZ Herald and was named one of NZ Lawyer’s Elite Women in 2024 for her contributions to the profession. To explore KiwiBoss training opportunities and stay updated on upcoming courses and webinars, visit kiwiboss.co.nz.