Employment Law

Lawyer, mediation, disputes employment agreements, personal grievances, unfair dismissal, sexual harassment, bullying, stress at work, restructuring, redundancy, are part of the vocabulary of employers and employees who seek advice from Phil Butler & Associates Ltd.

Phil Butler and Associates Ltd is one of Canterbury’s leading employment law advocacy firms. If you want to contact us then go to "Contact" where you will find our details and most importantly a map showing not only where we are located but also the nearest parking and  parking charges.

For a free phone consultation, call us on

03 365-2150 

or send your questions to

freeadvice [at] employment-law [dot] co [dot] nz

Since 1992 we have been providing advice and representation to employees and employers in New Zealand and abroad on employment agreements, employment problems, disputes and the laws governing them in New Zealand.

We represent people at meetings involving performance management, workplace relationship problems, complaints, restructuring and discipline. We act for people in Mediation, before the Employment Relations Authority and at the Employment Court.

We act for both employees and employers. We specialise in small to medium size businesses. Like a lawyer, we seek to protect them from expensive litigation and provide them with resources that are easy to apply. We  represent employees from both the private and public sectors.

It is very important to us that clients feel supported and confident their interests are being protected and promoted

Through our blogs we provide both information and opinion on employment issues. We recognise that often what people understand about employment law is a mixture of mythology and fact. The reason for this is simply that, unlike most areas of the law, employment law is contentious and driven by sectional and political interests and their spin doctors. Consequently, some blogs are intended to dispel the myths.