Hayley Coles
Senior Associate
Duncan Cotterill
Hayley Coles is a Senior Associate in the Employment team at Duncan Cotterill. She assists clients with the full spectrum of employment matters and specialises in conducting independent workplace investigations. Hayley has worked in the UK and in New Zealand, supporting a wide variety of clients of differing sizes and across many industries. She regularly works with HR professionals and assists clients with advice regarding issues such as mediations, addressing or resolving bullying and harassment (at an early resolution stage or once the process has become formal), restructuring and redundancy, performance management, disciplinary processes or responding to personal grievances.
SESSIONS
1:45
Breakout Sessions
Breakout A: AI, Employment and Privacy Risk
As employers increasingly adopt AI for recruitment, performance management and workforce planning, new legal risks are emerging across privacy, discrimination and employee monitoring. This session explores how to use AI responsibly while maintaining compliance with employment and privacy obligations.
Topics include:
AI in recruitment and discrimination risk
Employee monitoring and privacy obligations
AI in performance and disciplinary decisions
Transparency and consultation when introducing AI
Governance frameworks for responsible AI use
Auckland: Laura Scampion, Country Managing Partner, DLA Piper
Wellington: Carl Blake, Partner, DLA Piper
Breakout B: Bullying and Harassment – Prevention and Managing a Complaint
This continues to be an issue that both managers and hr professionals are required to manage.
Topics include:
Anti bullying and harassment policies. Considerations for your next review.
Can themes in a workplace survey be enough to trigger an investigation process?
Steps when managing a complaint.
An Employer’s obligation to the complaint and the respondent.
Different outcomes for the employment relationships at the end of the process.
Auckland: Hayley Coles, Senior Associate, Duncan Cotterill
Wellington: Matt Harrop, Special Counsel, Duncan Cotterill