News

ALWU’s monthly newsletters are available here.

ALWU’s Employment Law Committee’s guidance documents are set out below:

• The Government’s COVID-19 wage subsidy and salary reductions.

Links to press coverage of ALWU and its campaigns are set out below:

• LawFuel: The Underpaid Aotearoa Legal Workers

• New Zealand Law Society: Half of respondents to union survey say they are working for less than the minimum wage

• Stuff: Law firm workers often don’t make minimum wage, new survey shows

• NZ Herald (premium): Legal union – better late than never

• Stuff: #Metoo and the need for a lawyers’ union

• Stuff: Lawyers are working for ‘less than minimum wage’, new union claims

• Lawyers Weekly: Should Australian lawyers unionise?

• The Spinoff: Why we started a union for lawyers

• Newsroom: The birth of a union

• New Zealand Law Society: New legal union vows to fight for better pay and conditions

• Radio New Zealand: New junior lawyers union launched in response to scandals

• Stuff: Otago law students not ready to forgive Russell McVeagh

• Stuff: Junior lawyers union started after law industry scandal

• Scoop politics: New lawyers’ union calls for change in the legal sector

• 95bFM radio segment: A new union for lawyers