Specialty / Employment
Employment law for both sides of the table.
Employee or employer, individual claim or restructure, restraint dispute or unjustified-dismissal application — Marco Reid drafts the right document under the right Act, with the right deadlines, and the lawyer signs every output before it leaves the firm.
Coverage by jurisdiction.
The statutes, the regulators, and the matter types Marco Reid handles for this specialty in each market.
New Zealand
Authorities
- ✓Employment Relations Act 2000 — personal grievances, mediation, ERA
- ✓Holidays Act 2003 — annual leave, public holidays, sick leave
- ✓Equal Pay Act 1972 + Pay Equity Amendment Act 2020
- ✓Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 — duties, WorkSafe
- ✓Wages Protection Act 1983 + Minimum Wage Act 1983
- ✓Privacy Act 2020 — employee data, references
What we cover
- ✓Individual employment agreements (permanent, fixed-term, casual)
- ✓Personal grievance — unjustified dismissal, disadvantage, discrimination
- ✓Restructuring procedure — consultation, redeployment, redundancy
- ✓Restraint of trade enforceability + reasonableness modelling
- ✓Holiday Pay Act calculations + remediation
- ✓90-day trial periods (now reinstated for all employers)
- ✓Migrant exploitation + accredited employer compliance
Common matters
Australia
Authorities
- ✓Fair Work Act 2009 + Fair Work Regulations 2009
- ✓Modern Awards (122+ industry-specific)
- ✓National Employment Standards (NES)
- ✓Fair Work Commission — unfair dismissal, general protections
- ✓Work Health and Safety Act + state OHS Acts
- ✓Sex Discrimination Act 1984 + Disability Discrimination Act 1992
What we cover
- ✓Unfair dismissal applications (s 394 within 21 days)
- ✓General protections — adverse action, workplace rights
- ✓Modern Award interpretation + Better Off Overall Test (BOOT)
- ✓Enterprise agreements — bargaining, FWC approval
- ✓Restructuring + genuine redundancy
- ✓Restraint of trade (NSW Restraints of Trade Act vs other states)
- ✓Casual conversion, sham contracting, contractor misclassification
Common matters
United Kingdom
Authorities
- ✓Employment Rights Act 1996 — unfair dismissal, redundancy, family leave
- ✓Equality Act 2010 — protected characteristics + reasonable adjustments
- ✓Working Time Regulations 1998
- ✓Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992
- ✓Employment Tribunal — claims within 3 months less 1 day
- ✓ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance
What we cover
- ✓Unfair dismissal claims (2-year qualifying service)
- ✓Redundancy procedure + collective consultation (>20 employees)
- ✓TUPE transfers + ETO reasons
- ✓Discrimination claims — direct, indirect, harassment, victimisation
- ✓Settlement Agreements + COT3 (ACAS conciliation)
- ✓Restrictive covenants — Tillman v Egon Zehnder severance approach
- ✓Whistleblowing under PIDA
Common matters
United States
Authorities
- ✓Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) — minimum wage, overtime, exempt classification
- ✓Title VII, ADA, ADEA, Equal Pay Act — federal discrimination
- ✓FMLA — 12 weeks unpaid leave
- ✓NLRA — concerted activity, union organising
- ✓State equivalents (CA FEHA, NY HRL, etc.) often more protective
- ✓WARN Act — 60-day notice for mass layoffs
What we cover
- ✓At-will employment + wrongful termination exceptions
- ✓Discrimination claims — federal + state (right-to-sue letters)
- ✓Wage + hour disputes (exempt vs non-exempt, off-the-clock work)
- ✓Non-compete enforceability state-by-state (CA bans; FTC rule paused)
- ✓Restrictive covenants + trade secret misappropriation (DTSA)
- ✓Reduction-in-force + WARN notices
- ✓Independent contractor classification (ABC test states vs IRS test)
Common matters
How Marco Reid helps.
Personal grievance + dismissal claim drafting
PG (NZ) drafts with the eight-day clock tracked, F2 + ET1 (AU/UK), EEOC charge (US) — populated from intake, statute citations on every page, signed by the lawyer before filing.
Restructure / redundancy procedure
Step-by-step procedure templates per jurisdiction. Consultation letters, alternative-employment surveys, decision letters. Deadlines tracked. The procedural mistakes that lose every claim, prevented at the document level.
Restraint of trade modelling
Marco models enforceability against the relevant test (Wakeling v Atkin NZ, Petersen v Moloney AU, Tillman v Egon Zehnder UK, Reasonableness/Geographic-and-Temporal US). Shows the partner the weak points before the client signs.
Wage + hour back-pay calculations
Holiday Pay Act (NZ), Award + EA underpayment (AU), unlawful deductions (UK), FLSA exempt + overtime (US). Multi-year reconstructions with audit trail.
Settlement agreement drafting
Without-prejudice mediation outcomes (NZ), F1 deeds (AU), Settlement Agreements + COT3 (UK), severance agreements (US). Tax-treatment notes per jurisdiction. ACAS-compliant where required.
Discrimination + harassment investigation
Independent investigation drafting, witness interview prompts, finding templates, remediation plan templates. AML/conflict checks at intake against the firm's prior involvement.
Marco Reid is a workspace and tooling vendor. It is not itself licensed to practise. Every consumer-facing output passes through SignoffRequest and is approved by a credentialled practitioner in the relevant jurisdiction before release.
Employment files run on procedure. We run the procedure.
Eight-day clocks, 21-day clocks, three-month clocks. Marco Reid tracks every deadline, drafts every document, and asks the lawyer to sign before any output goes out.