Conceptualising and Enforcing Privacy Workshop- 6 December 2024
Professor Tonia Novitz Road Tour- February 2024
The
New Zealand Labour Law Society was delighted to support a
"road tour" by Professor Tonia Novitz of Bristol University in February
2024.
Professor Novitz is a Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol Law School in the UK.
A graduate of the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand)
and Balliol College, Oxford, she has held fellowships at the
International Institute for Labour Studies (Geneva), the European
University Institute (Florence), the University of Melbourne and the
University of Auckland. From 2019 - 2023, she was chair of the steering
committee of the international Labour Law Research Network (LLRN). She
is currently a UK representative on the advisory board of International
Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW), and a Vice President of the UK
Institute of Employment Rights. She was a founding co-director of the
Bristol Centre for Law at Work. Her research interests encompass
collective labour rights, international and EU trade, sustainability and
migration. Her publications have been cited in the Supreme Court of
Canada and the UK Supreme Court. Recently, she has written on the
relationship between sustainable development and labour standards in the
gig economy, as well as the ways in which sustainable development
chapters in EU free trade agreements may be enforced.
As part of
the "road tour" Professor Novitz visited Auckland, Wellington and
Christchurch meeting with colleagues and students and presenting
seminars at Auckland University, Victoria University of Wellington and
Canterbury University.
Sixth New Zealand Labour Law Society Conference 16-17 November 2023, Auckland University, Business School
Keynote Speakers:
Distinguished Professor Anthony Forsyth RMIT University
Simon Mitchell KC (Hobson Chambers)
After Dinner Speaker: Emeritus Professor Margaret Wilson DCNZM
Closing Remarks :Dr Amanda Reilly (as co-chairperson of NZLLS)
Donation to the New Zealand Legal Information Institute (July 2021)
The New Zealand Labour Law Society were very happy to make a donation to the New Zealand Legal Information Institute to support the digitalisation of historical material relating to the Awards system. This project will preserve an important part of New Zealand's Industrial Relations history and provide a valuable free primary resource for researchers in the future.Zoom Seminar (2 October 2020)
On Friday 2 October 2020 the Society offered a Zoom seminar around the theme of “Employment Law in
an uncertain environment: Utopia or Dystopia?”
This was recorded and can be viewed here
Convener: Graeme Colgan, Barrister and former Chief Judge of the Employment Court of New Zealand
Speakers and Topics:
Professor Gordon Anderson, Law Faculty, Victoria University of Wellington "Structural Integrity- Employment Law and the Pandemic"
John Goddard, Barrister, Lambton Chambers "Access to justice"
Dr Andrew Dallas, Chief, Employment Relations Authority "The Authority and CoVID-19"
Nicola Green, Massey University’s School of Management "Working from home in times of disruption and in the future: implications for workers and organisations"
Dr Amanda Reilly and Kathleen Makale, School of Accounting and Commercial Law Victoria University of Wellington "Who pays? Employees, tax and the costs of working from home."
Professor Annick Masselot, School of Law, University of Canterbury "Who works and who gets paid?"
Anna Sturman and Dr Matt Scobie, University of Canterbury University Business School "Economies of Mana and horizons of change"
Dr Dawn Duncan, Faculty of Law, University of Otago "Worker health"
Dr Sanna Malinen, University of Canterbury University Business School and Prof Katharina Naswall, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury "Covid and Wellbeing"
Peter Upson, Public Trust "Artificial Intelligence and Workplace
Fifth Biennial conference (15-16 November 2019, Victoria University of Wellington)
Keynote speakers:
Professor Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol, England
Associate Professor Joanna Howe, University of Adelaide
Conference Programme
Special Issue of the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations
Editorial Note
Fourth Biennial conference (24-25 November 2017, Canterbury University)
Keynote Speakers:Professor Judy Fudge, Kent University, England
Dr Alysia Blackham, University of Melbourne
Professor John Howe, University of Melbourne
Chief Judge Christina Inglis Dinner Speech
Special Issues of the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations:
Vol 43 No 2 2018
Vol 43 No 3 2018
Third Biennial conference (27 November 2015, Victoria University of Wellington)
Keynote Speakers:Dr Virginia Mantouvalou, University College, London.
Professor Paul Secunda, Marquette Law School, Wisconsin
Professor Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University, Melbourne
Conference Programme
Special Issues of the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations
Vol 41 No 3 2016
Vol 41 No 2 2016
Second Biennial Conference (22 November 2013, Auckland University of Technology)
Keynote Speakers:Professor Keith Ewing, King's College, London
Professor Margaret Wilson, University of Waikato
Professor Andrew Stewart, University of Adelaide Law School
Chief Judge Graeme Colgan Dinner Speech
Conference Programme
Special Issues of the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations:
Vol 39 No 2 2014
Vol 39 No 3 2014
First Biennial Conference (2 December 2011, Victoria University of Wellington)
Keynote Speakers:Professor Andrew Stewart, Adelaide University
Professor Richard Johnson, Griffiths University
Conference Programme
Special Issue of the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations:
Vol 37 No 1 2012
The purpose of this workshop was to map the way that workers' privacy is increasingly under threat in the light of new technology and to consider how law might respond to this
Organised by Dr Amanda Reilly, School of Business and Government VUW with visiting scholar from Washington and Lee University Professor Joshua Fairfield in conjunction with the New Zealand Labour Law Society and the Privacy Foundation of New Zealand.
The first keynote speaker Associate Professor Julia Powles Director of the UWA Tech and Policy Lab set the tone for an enjoyable and intellectually stimulating day using the ways that people working professional sport are increasingly subject to extreme and intrusive physical monitoring and management via algorithm as an entry point to highlighting trends in the world of work more generally
Other speakers on the day were a mix of practicing lawyers and brilliant emerging new researchers as well as senior and established academics. There was also a lively panel discussion on Perspectives from Civil Society featuring union and public and private sector perspectives.
Professor Colin Gavaghan of Bristol University and Carol Jess, University of Bath closed the day in a second keynote which focused particularly on AI and employment and emerging law in the European Union.
The overall conclusion of the day was hopeful. While technological and social change have been rapid and it is fair to say law has not kept up, law is not intrinsically unable to regulate these changes and with global cooperation and dialogue, new and better law is possible.