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Urgent legislative reform needed to regulate advocates
In this Newsroom article Catherine discusses the urgent need for legislative reform to regulate employment advocates, which has been a concern in the employment jurisdiction for around two decades.
This article was first published in Newsroom in October 2025.
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- Urgent legislative reform needed to regulate advocates
- How to get started with AI in the legal profession
- Catherine Stewart talks to RNZ about a rare Employment Court decision in relation to advocate conduct
- LawNews celebrates Mothers’ Day
- Catherine Stewart talks to Mike Hosking about the need to regulate employment advocates
- The Case for the Regulation of Advocates
- Dr Siouxsie Wiles' decision a wake-up call for all employers with public facing staff
- Worksafe Prosecution of School Board under Health and Safety at Work Act
- Meet Catherine Stewart, convenor Employment Law Committee
- Day One of the case of Siouxsie Wiles v the University of Auckland
- Inaugural employment law edition of LawNews
- New sexual harassment law
- Employees versus independent contractors? The debate for strippers
- Strippers’ employment agreements and the Hobbit Law
- Dealing with extremists in the workplace
- Legal Aspects of the Strip Club Industry
- MediaWorks Redundancies
- Indefinite paid leave for employees
- Christmas party horror stories – the legal risks
- Sexual harassment law change comes a step closer
- Government’s Proposed NZ Income Insurance Scheme
- Employment Law Advocates
- How big an issue is watching porn in the workplace?
- How the wage subsidy works
- Can unvaccinated workers get their old jobs back?
- Restraints of trade: Tova O’Brien’s case
- Tova O’Brien: A reluctant public face to restraint of trade debate
- Court of Appeal rules on key Covid dispute
- ADLS Employment Law Committee meets the Minister
- Nurses’ Union challenge to ADHB policy
- How will Covid-19 vaccines fit with our jobs?
- Wage subsidy August 2021
- Uber in the dock: New Zealand drivers take company to court
- Nine customs border workers fired after refusing jab
- Is our workplace safety law still fit for purpose?
- Court rules uber driver is a contractor, not an employee.
- Bosses, unions want clarity on COVID-19 jabs
- Drafting a watertight employment agreement: in search of the elusive beast!
- What your employer can and can’t do during lockdown
- Employment Lawyers Probe Access to Justice
- Redundancies due to COVID-19
- Contractor or Employee?
- How COVID-19 affects employment law
- COVID-19 coronavirus and employment law
- Employment Law Issues during COVID-19.
- Can a business specifically recruit a woman?
- When the work keeps stretching
- Employment lawyers debate big burning issues.
- Don’t dismiss the safeguards
- Catherine Stewart talks to Mike Hosking about Novapay in relation to teachers
- Interim Reinstatement: A Cautionary Tale
- ADLS Employment Law Committee
- Novopay Delay for Teachers' Salaries
- Staying on the Right Side of Anti-Bullying Laws
- Retirement Commissioner Investigation
- Must employees be paid for overtime availability?
- Paid domestic violence leave about to become law
- The devil is in the detail for employees caught by digital surveillance
- Law supporting domestic violence victims start of new employment era: lawyer
- Collegiality Vital for Young Lawyers
- Auckland eatery comes under fire for asking job applicants if they are on medication
- Pleadings, cross-examination and etiquette under the microscope
- Recent submissions on two employment relations Bills
- It has moved the boundaries for people to say 'no more'
- No disciplinary action in half of bullying, harassment cases at DHB's
- Employment law’s hottest topics under the lens
- ADLS Employment Law Dinner – a fond farewell to NZ’s longest serving Employment Court Judge
- Increased penalties for minimum standards breaches
- Scorching 2015 “Burning Issues” forum
- Employing The Right Strategy - Law News Talks To Catherine Stewart
- Employment Lawyer Of The Year 2013
- Redundancy Law Revisited
- Workplace Stress
- Workplace Bullying
- Discrimination and Obesity
- Misconduct Outside of Work
- Electronic Cigarettes at Work
- Rest and Meal Breaks
- CV Fraud
- Unpaid Internships
- Jurisdiction for employment agreements
- Stressed worker has $1m pay day
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