Employment advocates: time for regulation

Regulation of employment advocates is desirable as the issue comes up time and time again, Rachael Judge writes. (Image: Getty)

Bronwyn Heenan

Fri, 08 Nov 2024

Unregulated employment advocates are a perennial problem, and we are back here again. The need for regulation and the stark difference between how the employment jurisdiction can deal with unregulated employment advocates versus the Law Society with employment lawyers has come into focus recently. We have seen two very different outcomes between a badly behaved, unregulated employment advocate and a practising employment lawyer regulated by the New Zealand Law Society (NZLS).What’s the problem?An employment advocate has a simil...

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