Live online workshop · NZ$100 per attendee

Protect your business from costly HR mistakes.

HR Compliance Masterclass

A practical half-day live online workshop for New Zealand business owners, managers and HR professionals who want to manage their people with confidence — and cut employment risk before it becomes a personal grievance.

  • Employment relations foundations
  • Performance & difficult conversations
  • Disciplinary process
  • Investigations 101
  • Health & safety due diligence
  • Live Q&A / open floor
Limited places per session

Book your interest

NZ$100 per attendee. Book your interest and we'll confirm the next available date.

Private & secure·No obligation to attend
Approved Group Business Training Provider Practical, NZ-law based content
The real cost

One HR mistake can cost thousands.

Businesses often assume employment problems only happen in large organisations. The reality? Most disputes start with everyday management decisions made in good faith — and handled the wrong way.

$25k+
Maximum ordinary award for hurt and humiliation in a Band 2 personal grievance — before legal costs, lost wages or management time.
70%+
Of Employment Relations Authority determinations that go to a hearing are decided at least partly in the employee's favour.
40+ hrs
Typical management time swallowed by one poorly handled disciplinary or dismissal — investigation, meetings, mediation, paperwork.

Out-of-date agreements

Missing clauses, unsigned documents and agreements never updated for recent employment law changes.

Avoided performance conversations

Underperformance left unaddressed, then handled suddenly — with no framework and no record.

Confusing conduct with performance

The wrong process applied to the wrong issue, which is where most grievances begin.

Unfair disciplinary process

Natural justice skipped: no proper allegations, no chance to respond, outcome decided in advance.

Investigations done badly

Informal chats treated as investigations, missing witness statements and no impartiality.

No H&S due diligence evidence

Officers unable to show how they meet HSWA duties as headcount, contractors and sites grow.

The cost
  • Personal grievances
  • Legal expenses
  • Lost productivity
  • Poor workplace culture
  • Damage to reputation

This workshop is designed to help you avoid these mistakes before they happen — not clean them up afterwards.

Who it's for

Is this workshop right for you?

Business Owners

Want to reduce employment risk and stop losing sleep over people decisions.

Managers

Need confidence handling people issues — properly, and the first time.

Team Leaders

Managing employees for the first time and learning as they go.

HR Professionals

Want practical, current New Zealand employment law knowledge.

Growing Businesses

Need compliant HR systems in place before headcount outgrows the paperwork.

What you'll cover

Webinar agenda.

You'll leave with practical tools you can apply immediately — plus a clear sense of where you may want extra support.

Employment Relations Foundations

Know what a compliant agreement must contain — and when yours needs updating.

  • Key components of a compliant employment agreement
  • Recent employment law changes NZ employers need to know
  • Common ER mistakes that catch growing businesses out
  • Individual flexibility, variations, and when to update agreements

Performance & Difficult Conversations

Run the conversation properly, document it properly, and keep it out of grievance territory.

  • A simple framework for managing underperformance
  • How to document performance issues properly (and why it matters)
  • Structuring a difficult conversation so it doesn't turn into a grievance
  • The difference between a performance issue and a conduct issue

Disciplinary Process & Investigations 101

Follow a fair process from first allegation to final decision.

  • The principles of natural justice and why they matter legally
  • Step-by-step overview of a fair disciplinary process
  • When to run a formal investigation vs. handle it informally
  • Common process failures that lead to personal grievance claims

Health & Safety Due Diligence for Growing Teams

Understand what HSWA actually expects of directors and officers — and how to evidence it.

  • What “due diligence” actually means for directors and officers under HSWA
  • Practical steps to meet your due diligence obligations
  • Setting up hazard identification and incident/near-miss reporting
  • H&S risks that grow with headcount (contractors, multiple sites, shift work)

Q&A / Open Floor

Bring your own scenarios — get direct input on real situations in your business.

  • Live Q&A
  • Real workplace scenarios
  • Practical next steps
Real workplace scenarios

What would you do if…

No theory lectures. We work through the situations that actually land on your desk — and the process that keeps you on the right side of the law.

Your employment agreements haven't been reviewed since the last law change?

An employee has been underperforming for months and nothing has been documented?

You're not sure whether it's a performance issue or a conduct issue?

An allegation lands and you don't know whether to investigate formally or not?

You're partway through a disciplinary process and worried the steps weren't fair?

A near-miss happens on site and no one can show how it was reported or managed?

These are the exact scenarios we'll work through together.

Why this one

What makes this workshop different?

Based on real New Zealand workplace cases
Practical — not academic
Templates you can use immediately
Interactive case studies
Bring your own HR questions
Deliberately small online groups
Actionable checklists for every process
Included

You'll walk out with more than notes.

HR Toolkit

The complete pack covering every topic on the agenda.

Employment Agreement Checklist

What a compliant agreement must contain, and when to update it.

Performance Templates

Underperformance framework, file notes, PIPs and review records.

Difficult Conversation Guide

A structure for the conversation so it doesn't become a grievance.

Disciplinary Process Map

A fair, step-by-step process built on natural justice.

Investigation Checklist

Formal vs informal, evidence, witnesses and impartiality.

H&S Due Diligence Pack

Officer duties, hazard identification and incident/near-miss reporting.

Digital Workbook

Downloadable workbook following each agenda module.

Certificate of Attendance

Evidence of training for your records.

Deepika, Founder of Ask Your HR and facilitator of the HR Compliance Masterclass
Meet your facilitator

Deepika

Founder — Ask Your HR

Deepika has spent her career in the middle of the situations most business owners dread — disciplinaries, investigations, restructures and personal grievances — supporting New Zealand employers of every size.

She built Ask Your HR to make good employment practice practical rather than theoretical. This masterclass is the distilled version of what she wishes every employer knew before the problem started.

  • Employment Relations
  • HR Strategy
  • Performance Management
  • Investigations
  • Compliance
Online workshop details

Book your place at the HR Compliance Masterclass.

Date
Next intake announced monthly

Register your interest and we'll confirm the next date first.

Time
9:00am – 1:00pm (NZT)

Join link opens from 8:45am.

Format
Online — live via Zoom

Join from anywhere in New Zealand. Private in-house sessions available.

Duration
Half day (4 hours)

Includes short breaks and open Q&A.

Investment
NZ$100 per attendee

Includes the full HR Toolkit and digital workbook.

Availability
Limited places per session

Small groups so every attendee gets airtime.

Limited places per session

Book your interest

NZ$100 per attendee. Book your interest and we'll confirm the next available date.

Private & secure·No obligation to attend