Gillian Service
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
Band 1 : Employment
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About
Provided by Gillian Service
Practice Areas
Gillian specialises in people risk management for businesses. She is sought after for both her legal advice and thought leadership on complex and high-value matters affecting people in the workplace. She is an expert in employment, industrial relations, health and safety, privacy, human rights, and discrimination.
Her clients comprise some of New Zealand’s leading companies and their boards of directors. She advises on union issues and collective bargaining across many sectors including transport, oil and gas, retail, health and aged care, public services, financial services, and customer services. A seasoned litigator, Gillian regularly represents her clients throughout the mediation process and at all levels of the court system.
Gillian is passionate about the future of work and the challenges organisations face both locally and globally. She is a highly regarded thought leader on flexible working and worker status, complex pieces of legislation such as the Holidays Act, and strategic industrial relations issues. She is a regular speaker at the New Zealand Law Society’s biennial Employment Law Conference, including designing and chairing the event. Gillian has also designed the GuideME programme, a suite of training products to assist organisations in navigating the legal system as it applies to workplaces.
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Gillian Service handles workplace investigations into compliance breaches, bullying and harassment, as well as complex litigation. She is particularly noted for her expertise covering flexible working and Holidays Act issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Gillian is a truly outstanding employment legal adviser and easily one of the most sophisticated and commercial advisers in New Zealand."
"Gillian's advice is always pragmatic and her ability to quickly pick up the dynamics of the situation has always impressed."
"Gillian is a truly outstanding employment legal adviser and easily one of the most sophisticated and commercial advisers in New Zealand."
"Gillian's advice is always pragmatic and her ability to quickly pick up the dynamics of the situation has always impressed."
Articles, highlights and press releases
1 item provided by MinterEllisonRuddWatts
MinterEllisonRuddWatts Litigation Forecast 2023
MinterEllisonRuddWatts' Litigation Forecast examines the challenges of climate change litigation and greenwashing, the regulators’ current focus on business’ social licence to operate, how slowing global economic activity will impact M&A activity and create new pitfalls for directors of companies.
MinterEllisonRuddWatts Litigation Forecast 2023
MinterEllisonRuddWatts' Litigation Forecast examines the challenges of climate change litigation and greenwashing, the regulators’ current focus on business’ social licence to operate, how slowing global economic activity will impact M&A activity and create new pitfalls for directors of companies.