Employment Relations

Navigate employment disputes, personal grievances, and mediation processes effectively, while assessing risk and making strategic decisions that protect your organisation and support fair outcomes.

With this course, you’ll build strategic capability while identifying people-related constraints, diagnosing root causes, and applying practical tools to improve team culture and organisational effectiveness.

Move beyond operational HR and become a true business partner. Learn to build sustainable competitive advantage through talent, and proactively shape your organisation’s future capability.

People problems can slow an organisation or cause bottlenecks in putting plans into action. This course provides the insight, tools and strategies to identify capability gaps, fix issues, and meet future strategic people needs.

Because workforce readiness can’t be achieved without leadership readiness.

Because AI success isn’t constrained by tools, but by judgment, adaptability and collaboration.

Have an employment question that you'd value a lawyer’s perspective on? This is your opportunity to talk to EMA Head of Legal, Matt Dearing, live online.

Mental health conversations are becoming a common and complex part of workplace management. But where do your responsibilities begin and end?

EMA Connect Tauranga (March 2027)

EMA Connect Tauranga (May 2027)

Mental health conversations are becoming a common and complex part of workplace management. But where do your responsibilities begin and end?

EMA Connect Hamilton (March 2027)

EMA Connect Hamilton (May 2027)

Mental health conversations are becoming a common and complex part of workplace management. But where do your responsibilities begin and end?

EMA Connect Auckland (March 2027)

EMA Connect Auckland (May 2027)

As the legislation comes into effect, the EMA will continue to be your trusted guide through this evolving landscape. Plan early, gain clarity, and be ready for change. Register now.

Explore the realities of AI adoption in today's workplace, including shadow AI, organisational risk appetite, data security considerations and the foundations of good AI governance.

Explore and understand what the Fair Trading Act 1986 covers and how businesses can avoid conduct and practices that breach the Act which can be viewed as misleading, unsafe or unfair.

Understand key aspects of the Commerce Act and how it relates to trade practices, it's exemptions and penalties that could be applied and apply scenarios to your business to ensure you are compliant.