The Ultimate Christmas Compliance Tool Kit

Give yourself the gift of peace of mind with the key policies, templates and guides to keep your organisation compliant during the holiday period.

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The Ultimate Christmas Compliance Tool Kit

Christmas parties, gifting, end-of-year events – we’re coming into a high-energy month for business. It’s an ideal time to dust off your policies around conduct and expectations before launching into the fun, so you can manage responsibilities and protect your business while still providing a great wrap-up to the year for your teams and stakeholders. 

 The Ultimate Christmas Compliance Tool Kit provides you with the key policies, templates and guides to ensure you keep your organisation compliant during the holiday period. 

EMA Member: $500.00 + GST
General public: $800.00 + GST
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Drug & Alcohol Policy Template
Company Vehicle Policy Template
Gifting Policy Template
Bullying Harassment and Discrimination Policy Template
Discipline and Performance Management Policy Template

RRP $690.00
A comprehensive workplace drug and alcohol policy, which provides a framework for an employer to conduct all of the legally permissible tests for drugs and alcohol testing.

RRP $287.50
A comprehensive company vehicle policy which provides various employee obligations relevant to the use of company and private vehicles for work related purposes, e.g. drivers licences, security, infringements, reporting accidents/damage, insurance, etc.

RRP: $287.50
This policy establishes guidelines for receiving gifts from clients, customers, suppliers, or any other business connections. Its intent is to prevent conflicts of interest, maintain transparency, and uphold ethical standards.

RRP: $517.50
A comprehensive workplace policy which addresses matters relevant to bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace, including responsibilities, complaints and resolution processes.

RRP: $575.00
A comprehensive workplace policy which sets out definitions of Misconduct and Serious Misconduct, and a framework for managing a formal disciplinary process.

BONUS FREE GUIDE

Christmas and New Year Public Holidays Guide

A quick guide on dealing with Christmas and New Year Holidays. Included is information on payments for working/not working public holidays and alternative holidays.

EMA Member: $500.00 + GST
General public: $800.00 + GST
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Meet the team that keeps you compliant and in control

The EMA is New Zealand’s largest employment relations specialist. We have a team of advisors, lawyers and consultants who do more than take a case – they’ll help you solve problems and build your business and a future.

Mauro Barsi

Head of Legal, Consultancy and General Counsel

Beverley Edwards

Senior Solicitor

David Graham

Solicitor

Clive Thomson

Collective Bargaining Specialist

Chris Longman

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Lisa Oakley

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Russell Drake

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Sean Hanna

AdviceLine Team Manager

Apurv Shukla

Employer Advisor

Murray Peat

Employer Advisor

Tilly Smith

Employer Advisor

Aimee Graham

Employer Advisor

Jasmine Lim

Employer Advisor

Jordyn Thurlow

Employer Advisor

Jacob Lane

Employer Advisor

Jenny Ung

Employer Advisor

Sarah Selwood

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Jason Tuck

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Bruce Lotter

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Toni Stanaway

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Myriam Heynen

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Murray Broadbelt

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Phil Hughes

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

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Mauro Barsi

Head of Legal and General Counsel

Mauro is an experienced advocate for businesses and employers and a trusted advisor when you need it most. He brings a powerful mix of practical knowledge in Employment Relations and Human Resources, litigation experience; and time spent as a senior leader in both the public and private sectors, all to help resolve your issues quickly and effectively. 

Having worked in-house with organisations to manage growth and transformation projects, his broad business management knowledge means he brings an overarching approach to issues. Mauro helps businesses shape their organisations through strategy, bargaining, restructuring and the implementation of new people structures, through to managing personal grievances, investigations, and employment disputes.

Beverley Edwards

Senior Solicitor

A self-confessed pragmatic problem solver, Beverley works collaboratively with businesses across the spectrum of contentious and non-contentious Employment Relations issues. A specialist in investigations, she assists members with the tricky processes of disciplinaries, performance, restructuring, and incapacity processes. Underpinning these contentious procedures, she drafts employment agreements and policies across many issues such as drug and alcohol testing, surveillance and social developments.

She frequently represents clients in dispute resolution matters, including mediations and in the Employment Relations Authority and the Employment Court. An admitted solicitor in New Zealand and South Africa, in her previous life Beverley has prosecuted on behalf of the South African State and worked as Legal Counsel for a multi-national music conglomerate. She has been a law lecturer the past decade and is an ardent community law supporter.

David Graham

Solicitor

As an Employee Advisor on the EMA’s AdviceLine, David got to use his skills in Employment Relations and Human Resources on a full range of employment issues. With that grounding he joined the Legal Team in 2023 shortly after being admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

David brings his analytical mind and the writing and media skills gained through his Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts degrees to help business members with drafting and reviewing employment agreements and policies, in particular. David has also been the editor of the well-read EMA Employer Bulletin, which includes invaluable case summaries and legal updates on employment law.

Clive Thomson

Collective Bargaining Specialist

Clive is passionate about achieving quality outcomes for businesses when they are dealing with Unions. As our main Collective Bargaining Specialist, he is currently the lead negotiator for more than 50 Collective Agreements across New Zealand. The significant majority of these are in private sector manufacturing. 

He has also led our Bay of Plenty and Central North Island HR/ER consulting team for the last 20 years. Clive is well respected for his work with businesses on their IR Strategy, and for his calm and constructive approach when dealing with Unions. This ensures that quality outcomes are delivered in often challenging situations.

Chris Longman

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Chris is held in high regard for his ability to understand a business quickly, and to design bespoke solutions to their people needs. With a solid background of more than 15 years’ experience in both business partnering and organisational development in both the public and private sector, Chris enjoys helping companies with their People Strategies. This includes Union Relationships and Collective Bargaining, as well as leadership and performance coaching; employment investigations and disciplinary processes; personal grievances; conflict resolution; and organisational change and restructures. 

Also working as a facilitator for EMA Learning, Chris regularly delivers Human Resources and Employment Relations training both on public courses and in-house. He ensures attendees walk away feeling confident that they can manage processes in a fair and compliant manner, protecting themselves and their company from unnecessary risk. As a certified independent investigator, Tauranga-based Chris is also a trusted lead to navigate complex workplace matters such as bullying and harassment claims and other tricky workplace issues.

Lisa Oakley

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Lisa’s approach to helping businesses with their needs is to be a true partner, collaboratively solving problems to ensure that leaders and organisations succeed. She is a past Board member and National Vice President of Human Resources Institute of NZ (HRNZ) with almost 20 years’ experience both in New Zealand – for large companies including Air New Zealand and Spark as well as not for profits – and in Australia. 

Community-focused, Lisa also thrives on working with small to medium-sized businesses and for purpose organisations. Lisa supports seamlessly with everything from People Strategy; Contracts and Policy; Organisational Design and Structure; Talent and Capability; Culture and Engagement; and Industrial and Employment Relations.

Russell Drake

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Russell is an experienced Employment Relations professional with more than 25 years’ experience providing consulting advice to clients across a wide range of industry sectors. In addition to this consulting background, Russell holds trade qualifications in the automotive sector, and has also held executive leadership positions in both the professional services and manufacturing sectors, enabling him to develop a broad business skill set and knowledge that now assists him in working with client organisations. 

Russell leads the EMA’s Waikato Based employment relations consulting practice supporting members in the resolution of a wide range of organisational matters from restructures to discipline processes, collective bargaining, drafting employment document and in the resolution of workplace disputes. Working across the broadest possible spectrum of Employment Relations, Russell acts as an advocate for the employer in forums, from the workplace to mediation, and in both the Employment Authority and Employment Court.

Sean Hanna

AdviceLine Team Manager

Sean joined EMA in May 2000 providing advice on employment relations, human resource management and employment legislation.

He previously worked as an Employment Advisor in the public sector and has a Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management).

Apurv Shukla

Employer Advisor

Before joining AdviceLine, Apurv joined the EMA initially as part of the Business Helpline. He has completed a Postgraduate Diploma and Master’s in Management from Massey University in Auckland and also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce. He has a background in account management.

Murray Peat

Employer Advisor

Murray joined the EMA in April 2022 as part of the Business Support Team, providing support to various projects including Membership, Finance and People Experience. In July 2023, he was appointed to the role of Employer Advisor with the AdviceLine Team. Murray has nearly 30 years’ experience managing relationships with clients, members, and service providers.

Daniel Church

Senior Associate

Daniel joined the EMA as a Senior Associate in April 2026. Prior to this, Daniel worked for a barrister for almost 9 years, specialising in employment law.

Daniel has experience providing representation in mediations, the Employment Relations Authority, and the Employment Court. He is able to provide advice and representation on all manner of employment relations issues, including restructuring and redundancies, workplace investigations and disciplinary processes, contractual entitlements and wage disputes, status disputes, and dealing with all types of personal grievance claims. He is also an experienced presenter at conferences, seminars, and webinars, on a wide range of employment law topics.

Daniel holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours and a conjoint Arts degree, majoring in History, from the University of Waikato.

Aimee Graham

Employer Advisor

Aimee joined the EMA in September 2022 as a part of the People & Capability Team, where she led the Talent Acquisition function and provided project-based work for our People Experience Team.

In May 2024, Aimee was seconded into an Employer Advisor role as part of the AdviceLine team to provide employment relations advice to Members.

Jasmine Lim

Employer Advisor

Jasmine is qualified with a Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Arts conjoint (University of Auckland) and is admitted to the Roll of Barristers and Solicitors of the High Court of New Zealand.

Jasmine joined the EMA as an AdviceLine Employer Advisor in January 2023 and provides employment relations advice to EMA Members.

Jordyn Thurlow

HR Coordinator

Jordyn graduated from Victoria University with a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Human Resources and Employment Relations in 2023. Jordyn has a background in Recruitment and joined the EMA as an Employer Advisor in the Adviceline Team in October 2024. She has now moved into the People Experience Team.

With Jordyn joining the People Experience team she is looking forward to expanding her HR expertise and building a broad skill set across all areas of people and culture—always with a focus on delivering exceptional outcomes for our members.

Jacob Lane

Employer Advisor

Jacob graduated with a Bachelor of Law from Victoria University of Wellington in 2021. He joined the AdviceLine team in July 2023 and provides employment relations advice to EMA Members.

Jenny Ung

Employer Advisor

Jenny graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts, with a double major in Employment Relations and Organisation Studies and Sociology in 2024. 

She joined the Adviceline team at the EMA, as an Employer Advisor in July 2024 and provides employment relations advice to EMA Members.

Sarah Selwood

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Managing conflict and workplace disputes is Sarah’s specialist area. A certificate holder from the Association of Workplace Investigators Training Institute (the gold standard in workplace investigations training) and licensed investigator, Sarah is a credible investigator with 10+ years investigation experience. When you have facts that are in dispute Sarah will carry out an independent and impartial investigation determining whether allegations can be substantiated. She will provide a quality report to enable you to take appropriate action to address any workplace behavioural and conduct-related issues.

As an alternative to a formal investigation Sarah also offers mediation services, an informal and early intervention to resolve issues that arise before they develop into unresolvable conflict.

When it comes to Employment Relations, Sarah has a deep knowledge of employer obligations, particularly when conflict arises. If it comes to it, Sarah also has an in-depth experience in managing personal grievances for employers, including negotiated exits and representation at mediation.

Jason Tuck

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Jason’s goal is to always develop ER and HR solutions that align with the values, strategic goals and direction of the businesses he works with to add value and provide successful and sustainable outcomes. With more than 30 years’ experience in New Zealand, he has held HR leadership roles at a range of large organisations across different sectors, including Ports of Auckland and Countdown, and has a broad range of knowledge and experience. 

He joined the EMA as a consultant in 2017 and is very familiar and comfortable in complex industrial relations environments and union negotiations and has a deep knowledge of all aspects of New Zealand employment law. Through the peak of the pandemic, he helped more than 50 businesses to restructure.

Bruce Lotter

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Bruce takes a practical and hands-on approach to helping resolve conflict and finding solutions for member businesses. He has a wealth of Human Resources, Employment Relations, employment law and general management experience through executive management positions in medium-sized businesses, employer organisations and senior human resources roles for the New Zealand operations of a global corporate. His skills were honed as practising attorney for a large national law firm in South Africa. 

His collective bargaining there was for industries as diverse as aviation, banking, freight and transport operators, packaging, pharmaceutical, printing and print media. During 21 years In New Zealand, Bruce has worked with a wide range of sectors from public entities and Maori Trust organisations to call centres, distribution and manufacturing, where there are often multiple collective agreements being negotiated. Whether it is collective bargaining, personal grievances, mediation, restructuring or conducting investigations, Bruce approaches every matter with honesty and fairness.

Toni Stanaway

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Toni has over 20 years senior leadership and HR experience across a wide range of industries and sectors. She combines her creativity, intuition, and strategic mind with a track record of delivering seamless, performance-driven solutions to member businesses. The results are practical, scalable, and innovative across a broad range of Human Resources and Employment Relations (ER) challenges, including business change/transformation, restructuring, planning and performance management, organisational development, workforce and experience development; and governance and leadership development. 

Toni believes that with the rate of change it is essential businesses are equipped with the right advice to help them navigate challenges and achieve success; with the big picture in mind. She also loves supporting leaders through tricky ER issues and assisting the development of individuals, leaders and teams. Toni also provides coaching, private mediation and workplace investigations services (Certified Private Investigator).

Myriam Heynen

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Passionate about imparting knowledge, in addition to her Human Resources and Employment Relations consulting, Myriam also designs and delivers training in those areas. Her life-long interest in businesses and how they operate began with her family’s printing firm at a young age. That grew with her formal education and experience in roles with a not-for-profit, Trustbank and Fisher and Paykel. 

Since 1998 Myriam has been contracting to businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Once of our longest-standing consultants, she joined the EMA in 2003. She helps members manage their people processes from recruitment to termination, including performance management, payroll and restructuring.

Murray Broadbelt

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Whangārei-based Murray is a very experienced hand in both employment and industrial relations. What began as HR roles in sizeable manufacturing businesses has transformed over 35 years into speciality areas including collective bargaining, personal grievances, investigations and mediation. 

Murray combines his considerable ER skills with those of his broad HR background to get the best results. He leads a team of specialists for the EMA throughout Northland. While he and his team cover the general employment relations field, they have become well known for their expertise in drafting employment agreements and hands-on advice for restructuring businesses. Outside of the work, Murray has a governance role with Northland’s Rescue Helicopters.

Phil Hughes

Employment Relations and HR Consultant

Phil has over 20 years of HR and leadership experience in the commercial sector, building on a previous career in the Armed Forces. He has worked across various sectors at a senior HR level including professional services, construction, FMCG, SOE and manufacturing, and brings a pragmatic, outcomes-focused approach to HR.

Phil has a solution-based attitude across specialties in remuneration and reward strategies, performance and discipline processes, restructures, industrial relations and training. His leadership style is focused on example and attitude: “what you walk past, you accept”. As a result, he brings an authentic and action-oriented style to his HR capabilities.

Qualifications: Phil holds a Master of Business Studies (Management), Post Grad Diploma in Strategic Studies, and BA in Politics. He is also remuneration qualified in Strategic Pay, Hay and Mercer methodologies and psychometric assessment qualified in TMP, OPRA and CEB/SHL methodologies. He also has qualifications in negotiations and training (with EMA) and is a certified Workplace Private Investigator (Ministry of Justice).