Richard McIlraith

Partner

Practice Area:

Specialisations:

• All aspects of relationships with unions, including collective bargaining strategies, collective employment agreements and the lawfulness of strike action and lockouts.
• Issues that arise upon the termination of employment, including protection of confidential information and enforcement of restraints of trade.
• Personal grievance issues, from attendance at mediation through to advocacy at all levels of the judicial process.
• Employment issues arising on the sale or transfer of all or part of a business, including redundancy issues, communicating with employees and unions and drafting relevant provisions in agreements for sale and purchase.
• A broad range of issues which arise in the employment relationship including human rights issues, privacy, health and safety and the negotiation of exit packages.

Richard acts for a large number of prominent New Zealand companies and for multinationals conducting business in New Zealand. Richard is consistently ranked as one of the key employment law practitioners in New Zealand in the Asia Pacific Legal 500.