Employment Investigations and Workplace Investigators

August 27. 2020 The Industry Employee Help Employer Help Workplace Investigations

The New Zealand employment law scene still suffers with its unlicenced employment investigators. Many untrained, incompetent workplace investigators who front themselves primarily as Human Resources consultants are holding themselves out as being investigator to the employer in employment investigations where they receive valuable consideration for doing so. A recent Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority (PSPLA) decision has confirmed the restriction on this practice where the investigator does not hold a licence.