Rebecca Rendle

Rebecca is a senior associate in the employment law group. She is experienced in all aspects of employment law. Her expertise includes advising on personal grievance claims, restructuring, holiday pay compliance and remediation, disciplinary, and performance management processes. 

Rebecca regularly attends mediations and represents clients in the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court.

Rebecca provides timely, commercial and pragmatic advice on employment law issues to clients in a range of sectors, including health, education, banking and finance, building, engineering and manufacturing, retail, and forestry.

• Asia Pacific Legal 500 Employment 2018 – Next Generation Lawyer

Examples of Work

• Advising on senior executive employment agreements and exit negotiations
• Drafting and advising on restraints of trade
• Advising on bullying investigations and acting as an independent investigator
• Advising on collective bargaining processes and strategy and attending collective bargaining as part of an employer’s bargaining team
• Advising on discrimination proceedings in the Human Rights Review Tribunal
• Unjustified dismissal claim (redundancy) - successful defence in Employment Relations Authority hearing
• Unjustified dismissal claim (serious misconduct) - counsel in three day Employment Relations Authority hearing
• Unjustified disadvantage/bullying claims - successfully defended bullying and breach of good faith claims in Employment Relations Authority hearing
• Constructive dismissal/discrimination claim - successful application for strike out in Employment Relations Authority
• Advising employers in the public and private sector on Holidays Act compliance and advising on audits and investigations by Labour Inspectors
• Nine month part-time secondment as Acting Employee Relations Manager with Fletcher Building 
• Various organisations and clients – training and seminars on employment law matters

Other Credentials

• ADLSi Employment Law Committee (2010 to present) - Member