{"id":90489,"date":"2025-10-20T17:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90489\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:57:11","slug":"disappointing-govt-kicks-employment-advocate-regulation-down-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90489\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Disappointing\u2019: Govt kicks employment advocate regulation down the road\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for regulation of advocates who help employees through workplace disputes are going unanswered, the legal sector says.<\/p>\n<p>Employment lawyers say instances of \u201cunacceptable behaviour\u201d are on the rise, with issues around excessive fees, the filing of meritless claims and in some cases, substandard AI-generated advice being provided to clients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSubscribe to continue reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center newspack-sign-in\" style=\"font-size:13px\">Already have an account? <a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign In<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited access Newsroom Pro articles<\/p>\n<p>Bonus subscription for a friend or family member<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive subscriber-only emails <\/p>\n<p>Access to post and read comments on articles<\/p>\n<p>A daily morning email of news and insights curated by Newsroom Pro editorial team<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/newsroom-pro-subscription\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corporate subscriptions also available<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calls for regulation of advocates who help employees through workplace disputes are going unanswered, the legal sector says.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[138,1122,232,111,43,7439,139,69,8780],"class_list":["post-90489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newsroom-pro","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}