Description
Practical guidance for businesses, HR professionals and professional advisers managing workplace change
Restructuring remains common in New Zealand workplaces and can be necessary in response to business change. From reducing costs to embracing new technology, businesses restructure to improve operations and respond to challenges.
Restructuring can involve difficult decisions about roles and people. When redundancies are proposed, getting the process right matters. A well-managed process can support staff and help businesses implement change successfully. Mistakes can lead to personal grievances, legal costs, workplace disruption and reputational damage.
This practical webinar gives businesses and professional advisers a clear framework for managing restructuring and redundancy. It covers key decisions from developing genuine business reasons through to consultation, redeployment and implementation.
Employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass will share practical examples and strategies to help attendees identify risks early. Professional advisers will gain greater confidence when guiding clients through difficult restructuring decisions.
Key topics include:
- Key legal considerations and genuine business reasons
- Planning a restructure and identifying risks early
- Consultation, good faith and a proper process
- Selection, redeployment and alternatives to redundancy
- Supporting staff and managing wider workplace impacts
- Avoiding common mistakes and reducing legal risk
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the key legal considerations when restructuring roles or making positions redundant
- Assess whether there are genuine business reasons for a proposed restructure
- Identify what should be considered before commencing a restructuring process
- Follow a fair consultation process and meet good faith obligations
- Consider alternatives to redundancy, including redeployment
- Support staff affected by restructuring and redundancy
- Apply practical strategies to reduce legal risk and avoid common process mistakes
- Advise employers more confidently on restructuring strategy, process and implementation
SUITED TO
This webinar is designed for HR professionals, employment lawyers, employment relations advisers, accountants, business owners and managers involved in restructuring or redundancy decisions.
It is particularly useful for professionals advising businesses on restructuring, workforce changes or redundancy.
Suitable for organisations of all sizes, it provides practical guidance for restructuring decisions. Attendees will learn how to reduce legal and workplace risks.
PRESENTER
Julia Shallcrass, Director, KiwiBoss
Julia Shallcrass is an employment lawyer and Director of KiwiBoss, specialising in practical employment law and people management training for HR professionals and managers.
Julia regularly delivers employment law training throughout New Zealand, including webinars and virtual courses for CCH Learning, HRNZ, as well as inhouse training. She is also an employment columnist for the NZ Herald.
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