Anne Wilson

Anne Wilson is a Partner in our Employment law team working across both our Christchurch and Auckland offices. She has extensive experience practising in employment law, gained primarily at a top tier law firm, but also as in-house counsel for Vodafone, and the Employers and Manufacturers Association before joining Anthony Harper as a Partner in 2020. This gives Anne a unique perspective in meeting the needs of clients.

Anne’s work includes advising on:

• Complex restructures
• Personal grievance claims
• Employment status claims
• Minimum entitlement claims
• Exit negotiations
• Triangular employment claims
• Whistleblower complaints
• Conducting bullying and harassment and disciplinary investigations
• Collective bargaining and collective employment agreements
• Individual employment agreements and employee incentive and bonus schemes
• Restraints of trade
• Authority hearings
• The employment aspects of large corporate transactions
• General employment advice

Anne’s solutions take into account the multi-dimensional aspects of the employment relationship, and clients describe her working style as responsive, commercial and pragmatic. She was a key member of the Holidays Act Remediation project team in her time at Vodafone, and the Act remains a key area of interest.

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Key Transactions

Advised:

• A retirement home on redundancy and the transfer of vulnerable and non-vulnerable employees as a result of a sale of the village business and assets.
• A large employer in the aged care sector on a whistleblower complaint.
• A large investment company on the acquisition of a business in administration.
• A beverage company on a personal grievance claim.
• A large manufacturer on the interpretation of its collective employment agreement.
• A large corporate on its compliance with the Holidays Act. This resulted in a significant reduction in its remediation liability.
• A highly unionised workplace on a complex shift restructure.

Negotiated:

• A collective agreement for a large national logistics company as lead negotiator.
• An exit with a key executive member of a not-for profit organisation.

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Directories

• Asia Pacific Legal 500, Labour and Employment, Leading Individual, 2024

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Credentials

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Hons), Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Waikato

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Admission to the Bar

• New Zealand, 2002

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Contributed Articles

• Employment Court awards record $1.8m in damages for school counsellors’ mental harm

  The Employment Court Cronin-Lampe v The Board of Trustees of Melville High School has recently awarded almost $1.8m in damages, being the highest award of damages in the employment jurisdiction since 1992. Mr and Mrs Cronin-Lampe were employed by Melville High School (MHS) in Hamilton as school counsellors from 1996 to 2011. During the Cronin-Lampes’ […]

• What employers can expect under a National-led government

  With the official results for this year’s election due tomorrow, New Zealanders have voted for change with a National-led government. While employment law policies have not been a significant feature of National’s campaign, we can expect some changes that will have an immediate impact. Repealing Fair Pay Agreements law   National has indicated that it […]

• Legal risks associated with the use of AI

  In the span of a few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has showcased its potential to revolutionise the way we live, work, and interact. However, for many of us, the concept of AI and what it holds for the future remains a grey area. In this series, our experts outline some specific areas where the use of […]

• AI, privacy and confidentiality

  Many organisations have raised concerns regarding the relationship between AI (particularly public AI), and personal and/or confidential data. Anyone using public AI, such ChatGPT, could potentially breach privacy and/or confidentiality obligations if the information provided to the software is not appropriately vetted and managed. How AI uses content AI algorithms are typically trained using large […]

• Bias and reliability issues with AI-generated content

  The ability of AI to process complex queries and deliver an articulate response in a matter of seconds can lead to users treating the output as fact. The reality, however, is that AI delivers information and makes decisions based off the data set it is trained on – hence the commonly quoted phrase ‘AI is […]