LawNews - Issue 9

NEWS Apr 1, 2022 Issue 9

Inside ■ EMPLOYMENT

Bad news for unvaxxed workers P03-04

■ COMPANY LAW

Onerous new duties for incorporated societies P05

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Contents 03-04 EMPLOYMENT VACCINATIONS RIGHTS

A hard road ahead for unvaxxed – and unemployed – workers

05 MAINZEAL DEBUT HOMES INSOLVENCY

In the firing line: officers of incorporated societies

07 IN-HOUSE FLEXIBILITY VARIETY

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A week in the life of a lawyer: a continuing series

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EVENTS

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EMPLOYMENT LAW

Returning to work: the tricky process of dealing with unvaxxed former employees There are a lot of lawyers spending a lot of time looking very carefully at whether people were unjustifiably dismissed.

Especially where there is a health and safety policy in place rather than a mandate

Catherine Stewart

Graeme Colgan

Diana Clement

could argue that it showed that there were unjustified ulterior motives.

An example might be where the employee had a disability that precluded vaccination and may be able to argue they were discriminated against, she says.

“But it would be hard for them to do that. If they were in breach of the vaccine mandate, then the justification could be quite straightforward. So, it may be difficult to argue that it was predetermined when there was a substantive justification of a vaccine mandate.”

What’s more, says Stewart, the legislation relies on the circumstances at the time of the dismissal. “The dismissal would have been when the mandate was in place. They can’t subsequently say ‘this mandate got dropped so you shouldn’t have dismissed me’.”

Employees terminated under vaccine mandates may be sorely disappointed if they want their old jobs back. In most cases, employers have no obligation to re-employ them.

“For some other sectors, including health, aged care, border, MIQ and corrections workers, the mandates will remain in place,” says Susan HornsbyGeluk, managing partner at Dundas Street Limited.

And barrister Catherine Stewart, ADLS Employment Law Committee convenor, says employees dismissed under the Covid-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021 do not have an automatic right to be given their old jobs back.

“It’s a completely new employment relationship,” says Stewart. “There is no ongoing obligation by either Personal grievances party to formulate a new employment relationship.

It comes down to the employer and employee Barrister and retired Chief Judge of the Employment negotiating a new employment arrangement.”

Court, Graeme Colgan, says, however, that The government is withdrawing compulsory anyone taking a personal grievance case after vaccine mandates for police, being dismissed for failing to be education and defence workers The requirements vaccinated is giving themselves a from 11.59pm on Monday 4 April, to act in good faith good bargaining wedge to be realthough the Ministry of Education employed. still apply has told schools they can choose Dismissed employees have 90 not to employ unvaccinated workers days to raise a personal grievance for some roles, such as teachers with their employer and three years working with immunocompromised students. from then to issue proceedings in the Employment New Zealand’s situation is different to that of the Relations Authority. “The practical position is that you United States, Stewart says, where employees were can go back to your employer and say: ‘I have this furloughed. “The people on furlough would be brought litigation going against you. So how about we settle it back on [after mandates end]. In our jurisdiction, the by you just reinstating me and I forget about my case’.” employees have been terminated and they need to be Colgan expects some personal grievance cases rehired.” will see their day in court. “There are a lot of lawyers The only option for employees who want to be who are spending a lot of time looking very carefully re-employed, but aren’t, would be to take a personal at whether people were unjustifiably dismissed. grievance, arguing the termination was unjustified Especially where there is a health and safety policy in under section 103A of the Employment Relations Act 2000 (ERA), Stewart says. Those who apply for their Continued on page 13 old jobs, which haven’t been filled, but don’t get the job 03

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place rather than a mandate.

“There are a lot of lawyers looking at s 4 [of the ERA] very carefully. The requirements to act in good faith still apply. If an employer has just put [the mandate] in and hasn’t consulted with staff about the policy and that could mean dismissal, they could be breaching the good faith section, which is s 4.”

Joe Gallagher, negotiations specialist with E tū union, says that leaves the many employees who want their jobs back in a difficult position. “Do you take a personal grievance that gets everyone’s heckles up?

Or do you hedge your bets and hope the mandates come off?” Many are choosing the latter.

One exception which might arise is where the employee is still working out a notice period, Stewart says. “Because of the good faith obligations by the employer I would suggest they may have an obligation to re-offer the role if they’re still working out their notice period. Section 4 requires the parties to act in good faith towards each other.

“There is also the point under Schedule 3A to the Employment Relations Act which comprises the provisions relating to covid-19 vaccinations. Under subclause 3(5), a termination notice given under clause 3 is of no effect if, before the close of the period, an employee is vaccinated or is otherwise permitted to perform the work under a covid-19 order.

“This is likely to impute an obligation on the employer to allow them to continue working after the end of their notice period provided this does not create unreasonable disruption to the employer’s business in accordance with subclause 3(6).”

Colgan says it is often not well understood that the dismissal takes place at the end of the notice period, not the beginning. “If you are still within your notice period you are in a strong position to negotiate a return to work as an existing employee.”

The importance of this is that employees who have lost their job and are coming back as new applicants lose their accumulated rights from their previous employment. “So long-term leave or accumulated sick leave or bonuses. All those things you get by staying in a job for a long time.” A new employee wouldn’t get sick leave for six months.

Hornsby-Geluk adds: “Simply put, the justification for the potential termination has disappeared and therefore so too has the basis for any dismissal.”

Other arrangements Lawyer Garry Pollak says in many cases unvaccinated 04

diminished with 95% of the population vaccinated employees subject to mandates haven’t been and natural immunity from exposure to the virus, it is dismissed. “They are on leave without pay or some becoming harder for private employers to justify their even on pay such as [the] police [and] military. A bit private mandates. Whether they will be able to justify like a person on parental leave. them in the future will depend on the circumstances “Even in the private sector, there are many such and the rationale of the employer.” arrangements whereby as an alternative to dismissal, Hornsby-Galuk says employers with private such arrangements have been put in place. Far more have been accommodated in a variety of ways such as vaccination policies should be reviewing them regularly to take into account the changed being allowed to work from home. environment and updated Ministry “This group does not get a It’s a completely of Health advice. huge amount of publicity, [and] “It remains open to employers the numbers will be statistically new employment to consider terminating the insignificant. I am guessing in the relationship. employment of employees based health sector a few hundred out of There is no on their own vaccination policies, maybe 80,000 to 100,000. With the ongoing obligation but they will need to demonstrate group of police and defence force that the basis for the policy remains staff who chose to be unvaccinated, by either party robust, a fair procedure has been for example, and who went to the to formulate a followed, and that all reasonable High Court recently, it was less than new employment alternatives to dismissal have been 200 out of 35,000-plus.” considered.”

Pollak suspects many will find relationship Pollak says it’s not surprising their way back into their old jobs. that the government allowed private “Given we have, I think, the lowest employers to mandate that employees must be unemployment rate in the world and a pretty much vaccinated, subject to reasonableness and fairness. booming economy growth-wise, I would imagine some “This is not surprising as it also involves private dismissed employees could be re-employed.” property and is the same right as you or I have to say Asked if he thought some employers might have only vaccinated people can come onto my property, been pleased to offload some employees, he said: which incidentally my wife and I have had to do “I actually have not heard of any situations where because we look after two very vulnerable and very vaccination status has been used as an excuse to get elderly relatives.” rid of particular staff members. This is quite different Public service employees have extra legislation to where redundancy is used to get rid of troublesome that may give them some protection in the Public employees.”

Service Act 2020.

Colgan says he suspects some employers may “For public service employees, some employers have used the mandates as an excuse not to rehire people they wish they had never hired in the first place who have lost their jobs (for example, being demoted and were glad to see go. Should those employees want or shifted to another position because they didn’t get the vaccine) might have a case under the Public to return, employers could make it more difficult by Service Act 2020 to get their original job back if there requiring they take covid-19 tests. Some won’t want is still a vacancy. That Act requires that the employer to do that. He draws a parallel to NZ Amalgamated appoints the person best suited to the position.”

Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union “The Act requires that all employment decisions Inc & Ors v Air New Zealand Ltd (2004) where the must reflect the employee’s ability to do the job rather Employment Court allowed Air New Zealand to drug than political or other considerations. That’s to protect test in certain circumstances. Some employees could the integrity of state employment,” says Stewart. also have been demoted from a role that required Colgan adds: “If someone who was otherwise vaccination because of the mandates. Stewart says it been a satisfactory employee for 10 years and was could be argued an employee who had been demoted dismissed because they wouldn’t get vaccinated and because the role required a vaccine might be entitled come back and say, ‘I would like a job’ and 10 other to return to the old job. people who have never worked there before applying She notes that private employers can still have for that job, they may well be the best person for the their own mandate but wonders how long they will job given their experience and track record.” ■ continue to do so. “With the rationale for mandates

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COMPANY LAW

Are parts of the Companies Act no longer fit for purpose?

Jenni McManus

“That doesn’t sit very well when you’ve carefully crafted the society’s purposes, even if it’s a simple one like playing As the controversial Mainzeal case on tennis,” he says. “What does it mean the scope of directors’ duties awaits a to cut across that and say the officers decision by the Supreme Court, officers have to act in the best interests of the of incorporated societies have been society as distinct from what the society warned they may face a similar fate has been established for?” to the Mainzeal directors if the new Incorporated societies, Wallis says, Incorporated Societies Bill passes its Roger Wallis are more akin to charities than to forthird reading in its current form. profit corporate structures and placing Although the language is slightly disproportionately burdensome requirements on their different, clauses 53 and 54 of the bill impose on officers of New Zealand’s incorporated societies similar officers is likely to act as a deterrent to those who might otherwise be prepared to serve. duties to those imposed on corporate directors in “In our view, significant harm could be done to ss 135 and 136 of the Companies Act 1993 – an issue organisations which are already battling to cope with canvassed by LawNews early last year. immense demand on limited budgets unless clauses And, for incorporated societies that are largely not53 and 54 are removed.” Wallis also notes that clause for-profits and often staffed by volunteers, that’s a big 49 of the bill requires officers to act in good faith – problem, says Chapman Tripp partner Roger Wallis. another reason the offending clauses are not needed.

These sections of the Companies Act require “Their officers should be governed according to directors not to trade in a manner likely to cause the society’s constitution, which will inevitably refer serious loss to creditors and not to agree to incur to the need for officers to act in good faith in all their obligations unless they have reasonable grounds dealings. This position better reflects the common law.” for believing these obligations can be fulfilled when Clark has refused to remove the clauses, saying required. the government wants to wait until the Supreme Court Wallis has written to Commerce and Consumer has ruled on Mainzeal. Further, he says, the officers’ Affairs Minister David Clark, urging him to excise duties won’t come into effect until 18 months after the clauses 53 and 54 from the Incorporated Societies Bill Incorporated Societies Bill is passed and there will be before it comes before Parliament for the final time. a further four-year transition period. So, plenty of time Wallis says incorporated societies are “not overflowing with legal and commercial experts” and generally have to fix it up.

Not good enough, Wallis says. “It seems a bit scant resources and skills, and that it is “egregious reckless to me to knowingly pass it into law, knowing and unreasonable” to place such onerous duties on it’s deficient.” Instead, he wants the clauses removed ordinary members of the public, with “potentially before the bill goes back to the House and for Justice ruinous consequences”.

Minister Kris Faafoi to ask the Law Commission to He wants more emphasis to be placed on an revisit the entire Companies Act which, he says, is no incorporated society’s purpose, rather than the longer fit for purpose. In fact, Wallis says, he recalls legislation insisting that its officers act in the best a speech given by Justice Tompkins at Waikato interests of the society, as the current bill requires.

University in 1994 – a year after the Companies Act came into force – saying much the same thing.

“The law is unsatisfactory [and] there is a real risk that if you were to take on a role as an elected officer [of an incorporated society], then a well-resourced creditor could sue you personally. How is that going to encourage good people to put their hands up?” Wallis says.

The main problem with ss 135 and 136 is that they are broad and difficult to interpret. Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal have struggled with Mainzeal and adding to the uncertainty is the Debut Homes case, where the Supreme Court found that directors could be held liable for all debts incurred by a company in trading after a specific date. The uncertainty here is whether Debut Homes is confined to its facts or will be interpreted more broadly.

“The Debut Homes decision is controversial as to how far it goes and [there is] the live issue in Mainzeal where two levels of the court have come up with different theories. The Supreme Court will probably come up with a different one again,” Wallis says. Pointing out that the Supreme Court hearing took five days, he says these sections are very hard to understand.

Wallis acknowledges Chapman Tripp has an interest in Mainzeal as it acts for former Prime Minister Dame Jenny Shipley – one of four former directors staring at a $38.2 million costs and compensation bill unless the Supreme Court rules in their favour.

But he points out that the Court of Appeal shared similar misgivings about ss 135 and 136, with Justice David Goddard saying, “The legislation governing insolvent trading in New Zealand is unsatisfactory in a number of respects. The Act should be reviewed to ensure that it provides a coherent and practically workable regime for the protection of creditors where directors decide to keep trading in circumstances where a company is insolvent or near-insolvent.” ■ 05

ADLS

ADLS sells its Auckland headquarters, Chancery Chambers After a competitive tender process, ADLS announced this week it had sold its Chancery Chambers building in downtown Auckland.

The transaction is scheduled to settle on 29 July. As part of that arrangement, ADLS will remain in Chancery Chambers for between one and two years while it looks to buy a commercial building in Auckland as its long-term home.

Members were canvassed late last year about a prospective sale and gave the ADLS Council a strong mandate to proceed.

The building went on the market in February with tenders closing in mid-March.

The ADLS council last week unanimously agreed to the sale, saying it was satisfied the price was good, given current and projected market conditions.

The purchaser is Kegg 35 Ltd, a business with expertise in

refurbishing and managing heritage buildings, ADLS President Marie Dyhrberg QC said.

“We understand their intention over time is to refurbish the building into high-quality office space, keeping the heritage characteristics of this magnificent building,” she said.

“This very positive development ensures that we can now undertake a considered search for a suitable commercial building to invest in without having to rush the process and, of course, it means that management and staff of ADLS can focus on providing services for members without the uncertainty of having to move to a temporary premises.”

As foreshadowed last year, all funds from the sale will be ringfenced and invested conservatively with Forsyth Barr. The sale was brokered on ADLS’ behalf by Whillans Realty Ltd. ■

Celebrating Leadership

In April our firm celebrates two notable milestones. Our Partner, Jacque Lethbridge takes office as President of Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa/New Zealand Law Society and Emma Foster joins the Partnership having begun her law career at Martelli McKegg. We pride ourselves on not only growing great lawyers but great leaders. Jacque and Emma are raising the bar for our firm and for the profession. Our heartfelt congratulations to them both.

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LEGAL PROFESSION/SERIES

A week in the life of an in-house counsel Georgina Sanders As cliché as it might sound, the beauty of working in-house is that no two days are the same.

The job requires you to wear several different hats, sometimes more than one at a time, so you can connect with the business and help meet its needs.

The in-house legal function often gets a bad rap for being the team that make things difficult or over-complicates a situation.

However, once you develop strong relationships within the business, the value you can add is profound. You start to find that different internal stakeholders actually want to come to you, rather than avoid you.

I started working in-house as my first job after being admitted and despite not knowing anything different, I have loved the learn-as-you-go approach and the autonomy I have been afforded in doing so.

I engage with the business across many different practice areas, including property, privacy, employment, operational agreements, intellectual property and other general legal matters.

Here is a broad overview of what my week looks like:

Monday ■ I start every day by clearing my inbox and replying to

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outstanding emails. Since we are an international company, emails sometimes come in from the overseas team during the weekend that require priority.

Sit down for a property team WIP to find out the status of our live projects and hear about any new ones in the pipeline. I work closely with the property team in drafting lease documents, sale and purchase agreements and helping with due diligence.

Work through any contracts or service level agreements (SLA) the team has sent in for review and provide comment for them to take back to their customers or suppliers.

Catch up with our general counsel about some of our larger customer contacts and leases, both here in New Zealand and overseas.

Arrange for a catch-up with our overseas in-house counsel to discuss what is going on in their regions and any new legal matters or updates to pass on to the senior team based here in New Zealand.

Tuesday ■ Consult with our group manager of team development to prepare for a mediation later in the week. We catch up with the team involved and talk through the process they followed and work through strengths and weaknesses of our position.

■ Head out to view one of our new sites with our property

Georgina Sanders

The in-house legal function often gets a bad rap for being the team that make things difficult or overcomplicates a situation

manager. It is always great to see what happens after the legal side of things is done and to follow the build progress of a new freight depot.

■ Work through questions that have come in from the team regarding what changes we can accept to our SLA and how best we can accommodate a customer’s request.

■ Have follow-up conversations with team after feedback is provided on contracts and understand the areas where it can be flexible and those where it cannot.

Wednesday ■ Have a zoom meeting with a contract software provider. We are looking to implement some new legal software so I am in charge of engaging with a few different businesses to compare their offerings and put forward a business case for the one we should go with.

■ Catch up with our development manager about a new site we are looking at and go over the commercial terms he would like included in a letter of offer for the landlord to consider.

■ Start to work through new lease proposal and talk with our property manager about any additional requirements the site might need to make it best fit our operational needs. It is always easier to deal with all this upfront in the negotiation to enable the landlord to understand the specifics of our operations.

■ Take a few calls from team on a range of topics including the status of different contracts, employment questions and general updates.

Thursday ■ Celebrate one of our team who has been with the business for 20 years– such a huge milestone. Always nice to come together with the wider team and have a shared morning tea and catch-up.

■ Have a call with our external counsel about some of our trademarks that are coming up for renewal and liaise with our signatories to find a time that will suit for them to sign the requisite Power of Attorney documents and declarations.

■ Discuss with general counsel whether we wish to oppose a trademark that is similar to ours in an overseas jurisdiction and what the likelihood of success would be.

■ Liaise with counsel for one of our landlords to arrange an extension to one of its key milestone dates in our lease, and talk through with the team the implications of this.

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EMPLOYMENT LAW/EVENT

Stalwart of the employment bar, Hugh Fulton, retires Friends, colleagues, and current and former members of the judiciary gathered recently at the downtown offices of Kiely Thompson Caisley to celebrate the retirement of Hugh Fulton.

A former President of ADLS (1990-1991), Fulton – now 82 – was finally calling it a day after more than 30 years as a barrister sole and another 25 as a partner at Wilson Henry. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was one of New Zealand’s best-known employment lawyers.

Peter Kiely, a partner at Kiely Thompson Caisley, who often acted as Fulton’s junior, describes him as “a real lawyers’ lawyer”, with a great interest in the law and someone who didn’t shy away from expressing a view on behalf of the profession. He was a modest man, Kiely says, an extremely thorough practitioner and a “real gentleman”.

Fulton was President of ADLS at a time of great change in the profession. This was the era of the Renshaw Edwards defalcation, when NZLS was forced to levy members to cover the $29 million the pair stole from investors. There was also the fallout from the collapse of contributory mortgage companies such as RSL and Landbase – the precursors to finance companies like Bridgecorp, Hanover and Nathan Finance which hit the wall a decade later.

And it was the time when law firms began to amalgamate, and lawyers began to specialise. “Firms with eight partners suddenly became firms with 20+ partners and, more importantly, we saw the arrival of national firms,” Kiely says.

The 1980s were also a decade of huge commercial growth and innovation, culminating in the global sharemarket crash of October 1987.

This proved difficult for many of the newly minted law firms which had committed themselves to flash new premises in downtown Auckland and Wellington.

When Fulton joined the profession, there were only two types of lawyers, Kiely says – conveyancers and common lawyers. “But in the 1980s and, particularly in 1987, there were a lot of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) and a lot of commercial law, and the law hadn’t kept up with the new corporate environment.”

Fulton practised in Vulcan Lane and, later, in Southern Cross Chambers.

Along with High Street and O’Connell Street, this was at the time the heart of legal Auckland.

For three decades he, along with Graeme Colgan and the late John Haigh QC, were the leaders of the employment law bar. Fulton appeared in all the leading industrial law cases, Kiely says, especially those relating

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Hugh Fulton and Matthew Casey QC

Andrew Gilchrist, Joanna Pidgeon, Hugh Fulton and Judge Kathryn Beck

He was someone who advanced the law as well as his clients’ cases

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Peter Kiely, Judge Joanna Holden, Hugh Fulton, Judge Kathryn Beck and Andrew Caisley

Hugh Fulton, Bill Hodge and Richard Wood

Continued from page 08 to strikes, pickets and collective bargaining. These were the days of waterfront reform and significant changes in employment law, including the introduction of the Employment Contracts Act in 1990.

Former colleague and High Court judge Sir Anand Satyanand has known Fulton since the late 1960s and describes him as knowledgeable and reliable and known for his collegial approach to the law.

Sir Anand, who served as New Zealand’s Governor-General between 2006 and 2011, acknowledges it has been decades since the pair were practitioners together but remembers Fulton as a lawyer who “leaves a significant record” and “a seasoned practitioner, law society president and contributor to many law reform activities.

“He was someone who advanced the law as well as his clients’ cases,” Sir Anand says.

“He’s the sort of lawyer who, even if he was opposed to you in court, would on the spot write you a quick note saying ‘I don’t think the judge has fully understood your second submission’ – that sort of guy. He wasn’t a win-at-all-costs sort of person. He had a lovely generosity of spirit as well as being a sturdy opponent.”

One less-known fact about Fulton is that he has been the organist at his local Catholic church, St Joseph’s, for more than 50 years. So significant was his service that in 2012 he was awarded a papal medal – a Benemerenti – from Pope Benedict XVI in recognition of this services to the church.

Mark Perkins, Hugh Fulton and Laura Chapman

While he might have officially retired, Fulton still has three cases coming up for hearings though he won’t be taking on any new work.

He says the law provides plenty of interest and challenge to those who practise it and that’s why he has tried to make a contribution. And he says he’s “a big fan” of ADLS. “It’s the society that looks after the interests of practitioners and their welfare.” – Jenni McManus ■

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development and a member of our training team on Zoom. I miss the days of face-to-face mediations but Zoom provides many efficiencies.

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