Thursday, 11 September 2025
Monitoring and Surveillance Processes in the Workplace and Ensuring Compliance with the Privacy Act 2020
- Key legal considerations, including the Privacy Act 2020, the Employment Relations Act 2000, and the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
- Summary of case law
- Practical tips regarding implementation
Presented by Rosemary Wooders, Partner, Bell Gully
Chair
Daniel Church, Senior Staff Barrister, Hobson Towers West
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the legal framework regulating workplace surveillance, including compliance with the Privacy Act 2020 and other key legislation
- Gain practical strategies for implementing lawful monitoring practices that respect employee rights
*Original Content was created in June 2024
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Rosemary Wooders, Partner, Bell GullyRosemary Wooders advises employers and senior executives on a wide variety of transactional, contentious and advisory employment matters including personal grievances and disputes, collective bargaining matters, restraints of trade, team move matters, absence management, redundancy and performance issues, and negotiated exits. She also advises on health and safety and privacy matters. An experienced negotiator, Rosemary represents employers and senior executives at mediation. When matters have not settled, Rosemary has represented clients in the Employment Relations Authority, the Employment Court, and the Coroner's Court. In 2022, Rosemary was appointed to The Law Association’s Employment Law Committee (formerly the ADLS Employment Law Committee).
Daniel Church, Senior Staff Barrister, Hobson Towers West
Daniel Church is a Senior Staff Barrister in Catherine's team. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2015, and joined Catherine's practice in early 2017 to further his passion for practising in employment law. Daniel regularly appears as counsel in the Employment Relations Authority and as second counsel to Catherine in the Employment Court. He has also appeared as counsel before the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal defending charges brought by the Complaints Assessment Committee. Daniel regularly assists clients with investigations in the Employment Relations Authority, mediations, reviewing and amending employment agreements and policies to ensure compliance with current legislation, personal grievances, redundancies and negotiated exits. He has assisted companies with major restructurings and represented them in union negotiations, as well as representing both employers and employees in disciplinary and performance management processes. Daniel also has conflict resolution experience and is able to assist with mediating disputes between employees. He presents seminars at conferences on employment and education law matters which are topical and of particular interest to school leaders.
