Our Industrial Relations services include:

• Pre-Bargaining strategies
• Drafting of bargaining documents
• Advising on, and helping businesses manage, industrial action such as strikes
• Advising businesses on general union issues- such as union access to the workplace
• Employer representation
• Management of the collective bargaining process
• Advocacy and acting as the employer’s bargaining agent in collective agreement negotiations

Paul Wallace - Principal Consultant

Paul Wallace of Wallace & Associates has extensive experience in Employment law, Human Resource Management, and Industrial Relations.

Qualifications

Paul has a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Experience

With over twenty years’ experience Paul is ideally placed to provide advice to business owners and employees alike. It is more than likely that whatever your issue, Paul will have encountered a situation similar to yours and will be able to guide you toward resolution.

Paul practised as a lawyer for 9 years appearing regularly in the Family, District and High Courts, before developing a specialist interest in employment law.

In addition to practising as a lawyer Paul has significant commercial experience having been a consultant to the Employers and Manufacturers Association and more recently having held senior employment relations roles in the private sector with Air New Zealand, Westpac Bank and Spotless Services - three of New Zealand’s largest employers. In the public sector Paul has also worked with a large government department.

Paul has resolved countless employment relationship problems and has appeared in numerous mediations, as well as having represented clients in the Employment Relations Authority and the Employment Court.

Now practising as an Employment Law Consultant Paaul utilises his knowledge and experience in all areas of employment law for both employers and employees.

Memberships

Paul is an Associate Member of the Auckland District Law Society.

Associates

We have an extensive network of relationships with recruiters, outplacement and career transition agencies, and other service provides which are specialists in their chosen fields.