5 for $500*
Policy Package

Need to set clear expectations in the workplace? Want to ensure compliance with your legal obligations and best practices to reduce the risk of misunderstandings? 

We’ve got your back with our 5 for $500* Policy Package. Valid until 5pm, August 30 2024.

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Arm yourself with policies that will protect your business

As New Zealand’s largest employment relations specialist, we support you to get it right before it goes wrong. Our up-to-date policies add an extra layer of protection on top of your employment agreements while keeping you legally compliant and helping you address issues consistently and fairly. Find the policies to match your concerns in our comprehensive resource library.

Select any five policies developed by our expert Legal team before 5pm, 30 August 2024.
*$500 + GST for EMA Members, $800 + GST for non-members.

Simply hit buy now below to complete your purchase, you will be then directed to a form where you can select the policies you would like. We’ll then send these your way via email.

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Policies to choose from

These policies are templates only, we recommend booking a consultation with a solicitor to tailor these policies to your business at an additional cost. Some exclusions apply.

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Meet our Legal Team

The EMA Legal Team are expert employment law solicitors with years of experience.
Our team prides themselves on being agile and responsive and can offer special rates to EMA members.
For more information, call AdviceLine on 0800 300 362 or email legal@ema.co.nz

Mauro Barsi

Head of Legal, Consultancy and General Counsel

Ruthi Bommoju

Senior Solicitor

David Graham

Solicitor

Ronda Tokona

Senior Solicitor

Beverley Edwards

Senior Solicitor

David Browne

Special Counsel

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Mauro Barsi

Head of Legal, Consultancy 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.

Ruthi Bommoju

Senior Solicitor

Ruthi was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2016 and holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Social Sciences degree (majoring in Political science and minoring in Sociology). Having been with the Legal Team for close to seven years, Ruthi has distinct and far-reaching insights into the employment challenges of member businesses. Ruthi helps them on all aspects of employment law, including restructures, managing personal grievances, Holidays Act compliance, disciplinary issues, to negotiated exits, medical incapacity, fair pay agreements, performance management and mediations. 

Ruthi’s involvement extends beyond her role within the Legal Team. She is an integral part of the team responsible for presenting at EMA member briefings and regularly shares her insights on EMA webinars. Her employment law knowledge and commercial acumen assists in achieving sound and pragmatic resolutions for members.

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.

Ronda Tokona

Senior Solicitor

Ronda brings a wealth of business and life experience, and a pragmatic and personal approach to handling all employment relations matters and finding constructive solutions to member businesses problems. She has represented employers and employees in a law firm, as a consultant, and for a union, the Association of University Staff at Otago University. Ronda was a Visiting Justice working for the Otago Corrections Facility for more than 10 years, and during her MBA acquired her own business – a franchise servicing small to medium sized businesses with their financial needs.

Ronda is very well connected and has also spent significant time supporting the community through governance roles at both a local and national level, including the National Council for the Employment of Women, the Legal Aid Review Panel, the National Kaitiaki Group, and Te Kupeka Umaka Maori ki Araiteuru/KUMA (Southern Maori Business Network).

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 Browne

Special Counsel

Dunedin-based employment law expert David is proud of the role he plays supporting businesses, especially with the ongoing employment issues as a result of the pandemic. Being named the Greenwood Roche New Zealand Private Sector In-House Lawyer of Year in 2021 was an acknowledgment of how he deals with the full gambit of Employment Relations issues to enable businesses to achieve their goals. 

An advocate for employers battling injustices, David previously had a career in education, publishing and the arts. He is a firm believer in the synergies between the arts and law, where creative approaches lead to strategies that result in the best outcome.