Neil Sands Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden has acknowledged long-standing concerns about unregulated employment advocates but says her reform agenda is already too busy to act on the issue. “This is something that I hear about quite consistently. It doesn’t matter which city I’m travelling to, people have concerns about employee advocates,” van Velden told TLANZ’s Burning Issues in Employment Law conference in Auckland on Thursday. Lay advocates are allowed to carry o...
