Senior Associate, Wellington
Emma von Veh
Contact
- Wellington office
- DDI +64 4 462 0801
- M +64 21 023 87981
Profile
Emma specialises in employment, privacy, and health and safety law.
Emma advises on all aspects of the employment relationship. She has extensive experience advising on collective and individual employment agreements, disciplinary processes, bullying and harassment investigations, restructuring, personal grievances, employment and industrial aspects of mergers and acquisitions, contractor/employee disputes, health and safety, and human rights and privacy matters.
More broadly, Emma often advises clients on their statutory, public law and contractual obligations, including in relation to human rights, conflicts of interest, governance and official information.
Emma prides herself in assisting parties navigate difficult and complex issues in a way that minimises the risk of litigation, and damage to reputation and relationships.
Emma has experience in dispute resolution, and has represented clients in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court, Court of Appeal, and Human Rights Review Tribunal. Emma also regularly represents clients at mediation.
Emma also has health law expertise and has worked in-house in the legal teams at the Ministry of Health and the Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner. She advises on health information privacy, Health and Disability Commissioner investigations, and professional disciplinary matters.
- LLM - University of Melbourne
Work highlights
Acting for clients in the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court
including on high profile cases involving issues including vaccination, social media use, and public sector restructuring processes
Advising clients
on day-to-day employment matters including personal grievances, restructuring, disciplinary processes and performance management
Representing clients
in mediation
Representing employer and employee clients
with personal grievances and negotiated exits
Conducting
independent workplace investigations
Presenting seminars and providing training
on various employment and health law topics