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Law Graduate 2023 – Avid.legal(Wellington)
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for a recent/soon-to-be lawyer to join our Wellington-based team. We expect the position to start in February 2023 (but can be flexible around this).
We’re looking for someone that is eager to learn, up for a challenge, and has good banter. If you’re not

(Wellington)
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone with 5+ years’ experience to join our team in Wellington.
This role will provide you with an opportunity to work alongside some of the fastest growing technology and innovative businesses in the country.
Our culture and values are very important to us. You need to be

This post is aimed at helping businesses navigate two significant NZ privacy reforms that come into force on 1 December 2020:

  • notifiable data breaches; and
  • permitted international data transfers.
  • Other key reforms not covered here (new criminal offences, binding access decisions and compliance notices) are summarised in this article from the Privacy Commissioner: https://www.privacy.org.nz/blog/key-changes-in-the-privacy-act-2020/.

    On 14 May 2020 the NZ Wage Subsidy Scheme was expanded to help “high growth businesses” and some pre-revenue R&D businesses that were previously ineligible because either:

    • their pre-Covid-19 year-on-year growth has been so good they couldn’t establish a 30% decline in revenue versus the same month 1 year ago (even though they have suffered

    COVID-19 – Government Stimulus Package – Guidance and CommentImportant update 31 March 2020.
    On Friday 27 March 2020 the government announced:

  • significant changes to the Wage Subsidy, and
  • that it has ended new applications under the Leave Payment Scheme.
  • On Saturday 28 March 2020, the government published a further clarification to the changes it introduced