Background
Kathryn has 25 years’ experience as a specialist employment and health and safety lawyer, both in private practice and as an in-house lawyer. Kathryn’s experience and pragmatic style means clients feel confident in her counsel and sound judgment.
Kathryn advises on the full spectrum of employment law matters and represents clients at mediation, in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court and the human rights and privacy institutions.
Kathryn is also experienced in conducting and advising on workplace investigations.
Expertise
- Individual and collective employment agreements
- Workplace policies
- Collective bargaining
- Contractor agreements and advice on worker status
- Disputes and personal grievance advice
- Conducting workplace investigations
- Restructures and Redundancies
- Disciplinary and performance procedures
- Restraint of trade disputes and advice
- Holidays Act advice
- Human rights and discrimination
- Workplace Health and Safety
- Pre‑purchase and due diligence employment advice
- Privacy Act advice
- Representation at mediation
- Representing clients in the Employment Court, Employment Relations Authority, and the Human Rights Review Tribunal
Recent articles
Can employees claim unjustified disadvantage arising out of their employer’s decision not to pay them?
By Kathryn McKinney
20 Mar 2024
Recent Employment Relations Authority determination on how employers navigate workplace bullying complaints
By Kathryn McKinney
31 Oct 2023
Employment law update
By Kathryn McKinney
15 Jun 2023
Specialisations
Employment / Health & SafetyProfessional Development
Professional memberships
- Association of Workplace Investigators
- Human Resources Institute of New Zealand
Qualifications
- LLB (Hons), University of the West of England
- Admitted: England and Wales 1998, Northern Ireland 2000, New Zealand 2016
