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SUMMARY:RemNet March Connect Event | Auckland
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Join us for complimentary drinks\, nibbles and the opportunity to connect with other RemNet members based in Auckland at our March Connect Event \nCLICK HERE to RSVP[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://remnet.org.nz/event/remnet-march-connect-event-auckland
LOCATION:The Parasol & Swing Company\, 7/204 Quay Street\, Auckland CBD\, AUK\, 1010\, New Zealand
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SUMMARY:RemNet Special Interest Group | Fitness Passport: A Cost-Neutral Wellbeing Solution
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nJoin us online for an insightful Special Interest Group focused on the benefits of Fitness Passport\, guest presented by Robbie Hunter (National Key Account Manager NZ\, Fitness Passport). \nTopics to Discuss: \n\nOverview of Fitness Passport\nBenefits for your Employees\nBenefits for your Organisation\nQuestions?\n\n\nWednesday 15 April | 10:00am – 10:30am
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SUMMARY:RemNet | May 2026 Auckland Connect Event
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Join us for complimentary drinks\, nibbles and the opportunity to connect with other RemNet members based in Auckland at our May Connect Event \nClick Here to RSVP [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://remnet.org.nz/event/remnet-may-2026-auckland-connect-event
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SUMMARY:RemNet | AGM + Employment Law Update
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\nThis year\, our Annual General Meeting will be held online on Wednesday 23 September. \n  \n\n\nFollowing the AGM\, we will be joined by Nicola Cuervo Partner\, Lane Neave Lawyers\, who will provide an update on the recent employment law developments impacting remuneration and reward\, along with practical implications for organisations. \n  \n\nAgenda \n12.00pm – 12.20pm:  Welcome + AGM\n12.20pm –  1.00pm:  Employment Law Update \n\n  \n\n\nA joining link with AGM documentation will be sent to those registered. \n  \nAbout Nicola \nNicola is a Partner based in our Christchurch office\, specialising in employment\, health law\, privacy law\, and dispute resolution. \nShe has extensive private practice experience as an employment law expert\, as well as significant in-house experience having been Principal Legal Advisor Employee Relations at New Zealand Police and General Counsel at District Health Boards New Zealand. \nNicola is an expert in disciplinary processes and investigations\, as well as restructuring\, personal grievances and alternative dispute resolution.  She has broad experience in health & safety advisory work\, managing complaints and adverse events\, and has extensive experience in high-profile government and coronial inquiry work. \nNicola is known for her pragmatic approach\, and ability to navigate clients through difficult situations without damaging ongoing relationships. Prior to joining Lane Neave\, Nicola was Special Counsel at another national law firm. \nIn addition to her New Zealand experience\, Nicola has worked in London as in-house counsel to investment banks. She has graduate qualifications in viticulture\, wine science\, and Spanish.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Register Here[/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:RemNet Annual Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:Pay Under Pressure: Building Confidence and Clarity in Remuneration and Reward\nThe environment we’re working in. \nIn recent years\, reward has been a reactive discipline in constant response mode. A pandemic\, talent shortages\, inflation shocks\, restructures\, global economic uncertainty and now AI and rising expectations about productivity – each challenge has landed at the feet of remuneration and reward professionals. What was once a predictable annual cycle has become a continuous exercise in adaptation. At the same time\, the scrutiny has sharpened: pay transparency requirements\, evolving pay equity obligations\, and growing expectations from employees\, unions and boards mean decisions are being examined more closely than ever. The need to explain pay decisions has never been greater. \nWhy this moment matters. \nThe pressure isn’t easing\, but it is becoming clearer – and that creates opportunity. Transparency is turning into a way of building trust for organisations that get ahead of it. Better data is making pay equity reviews into meaningful decision-making tools. AI is reshaping roles faster than most job architectures can keep up with. And constrained budgets are forcing a more honest conversation about what reward is designed to achieve. Success won’t belong to the organisations with the biggest budgets. It will belong to those with the clarity to make sound decisions\, and the confidence to stand behind them. That’s why we’re bringing the profession together around this year’s conference theme: Pay Under Pressure. \nThe theme: Pay Under Pressure. \nThis year’s conference is about Pay Under Pressure: Building Confidence and Clarity in Remuneration and Reward . Over two days we will explore the forces reshaping the profession – from economic conditions\, pay equity\, AI to workforce change and realities of operating within tighter budgets. You will hear from Senior leaders on the calls they’re actually making\, explore new research that’s worth your time\, and take part in facilitated discussion with the people solving the same problems in the same market. \n \n\n\n\n\n\nDetails:\nDate: 16 November 2026\, 8.30am – 5.30pm – 17 November 2026\, 8.00am – 12.30pm\nVenue: The Maritime Room\, Princes Wharf\, Auckland CBD 1010.\n\n\n\nBe in the room.\nTwo days\, one room\, and the people making the same calls you are.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nConference Partners\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nGold Partner\n\n\nSilver Partner\n\n\nSilver Partner\n\n\nExhibitor\n\n\n\n\n \n\nOur programme:\nDay One\, Monday 16th November\n\n\n\n08:30 – 09:00\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n09:00 – 09:15\n\nConference Opens\nAnjali Rajan\, RemNet Chair\nMichele A’Court\, MC\nAnjali’s bio ↗Michele’s bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n09:15 – 10:00\n\nThe Future of Pay in Aotearoa\nMelissa Clark-Reynolds ONZM\, Speaker\, Strategist\, Futurist\n\nWhat will it mean to be paid well in New Zealand five years from now? Melissa Clark-Reynolds opens the conference with a broad\, provocative look at the forces reshaping pay: technology\, generational change\, new ways of working and rising expectations around transparency and fairness. She’ll draw on global examples and bring each back to what it means for reward here in Aotearoa. It’s a session to stretch your thinking and set the tone for the two days ahead. \n\n\n\n\nRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:00 – 10:30\n\nEconomic Update\nBrad Olsen\, Infometrics\n\nWhat do today’s economic settings mean for the pay round ahead? Brad Olsen skips the broad economic tour and focuses on what reward professionals need to know: where wage growth\, inflation and the labour market are heading\, and what that means for 2026/27 increase budgets and pay decisions. It’s a practical\, New Zealand-focused briefing to help you set your pay round with evidence behind you. \n\n\n\n\nRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:30 – 11:00\n\nMorning Tea\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00 – 11:45\n\nBeyond Base Pay: Delivering Value Employees Can See\nRobbie Hunter\, National Key Account Manager NZ\, Fitness Passport\n\nWhen pay budgets can’t meet expectations\, how do you still deliver value employees can see? In this fireside chat\, people leaders from across sectors share how they’ve handled the squeeze. They’ll explain why they added wellbeing benefits to their total reward offer and how they communicated them to build an employee value proposition people genuinely feel. They’ll also cover the measurable outcomes\, from uptake and usage to staff feedback and engagement\, and the advice they’d give peers facing the same pressures. \nRobbie will be joined by: \n\nRenae Brunton\, Head of Employee Experience\, Northpower\nNic Yelash\, Manager\, Group Employee Remuneration and Superannuation\, IAG\nJane Stella\, Organisational Culture and Development Delivery Lead\, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora\n\nEach leads people work for a large\, dispersed workforce\, and between them they span the public\, private and community-owned sectors. Together they’ll explore the pressures they’ve faced and how they’ve approached reward decisions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:45 – 12:15\n\nThe Rem Professional of the Future: Tools\, automation and data-backed certainty\nKathleen Webber\, Co-Founder & CEO\, LiveRem\n\nThe remuneration role is changing faster than the job description. The manual work that once filled the week is increasingly automatable\, and the value is shifting to what you do with the time – and the confidence – that gives you back. \nKathleen Webber\, Co-Founder and CEO of LiveRem\, looks at what it takes to be a rem professional of the future: where tools and automation can genuinely optimise the role\, and how better data turns pay decisions from defensible guesses into decisions you can stand behind. Three case studies show what this looks like in practice for New Zealand organisations. Practical\, forward-looking\, and grounded in what’s working now. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:15 – 13:15\n\nLunch Break\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13:15 – 13:45\n\nHealthcare costs are rising. Is your strategy keeping up?\nMarsh Health & Benefits: Silver Partner case study\n\nHealth benefit costs are rising faster than most benefits budgets were built to absorb. Simply trimming cover rarely survives contact with a workforce that values it. So\, what are the alternatives? \nAlison Bamford opens with a short overview of the four drivers pushing health benefit costs up. She then puts the hard questions to Angela Williams and Alex Kotiah: \n\nWhere do you start when costs are rising faster than your budget?\nHow do you align health benefits with your wider people strategy\, so cover reflects what your workforce actually values?\nWhere can you make real savings in how plans are run and financed\, and where are cuts a false economy?\nHow do you judge success by outcomes\, not just spend?\n\nAngela and Alex draw on client case studies from a range of industries. They’ll cover what New Zealand employers have tried\, what worked\, and what they would do differently. \n\nPresenters from Marsh:\n\n\n\nAlison BamfordHealth and Benefits LeaderRead bio ↗\nAlex KotiahEmployee Benefits ConsultantRead bio ↗\nAngela WilliamsEmployee Benefits ConsultantRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13:45 – 15:00\n\nFour Lenses on Pay: What the Latest Research Tells Us\n\nThe market\, the employee\, the boardroom and the future – four research teams on what’s driving reward decisions right now. \nFour of New Zealand’s leading reward advisory firms bring their newest research to the RemNet stage in one power session. In sharp 15-minute briefings\, each reveals what their latest data says about pay\, reward and the pressures shaping decisions right now. Then all four come together for a live panel Q&A: put your questions directly to the experts\, and hear where their findings align – and where they part ways. \nReward Trends in New Zealand\nNeil White\, Principal Consultant\, NZ Government Lead\, Korn Ferry\nNeil will focus on five practical changes remuneration professionals should make over the next 12 months\, drawing on Korn Ferry’s March and July 2026 Global Total Rewards Pulse Surveys. The research suggests that while salary growth is stabilising\, remuneration professionals face increasing pressure to demonstrate the value\, fairness and effectiveness of reward investment. Our key message is that remuneration professionals need to shift from administering pay to actively shaping how organisations value work\, skills\, performance and future capability. \nBeyond the Pay Increase: What Really Shapes Employee Perceptions of Fair Pay\nCathy Hendry\, Managing Director\, Strategic Pay\nThis session shares new research into employee perceptions of pay fairness\, pay increases and pay transparency. We will explore the concept of pay fairness and how it is shaped by much more than just the number itself. \nSTI efficacy – under the radar\nTanya Giles\, Director\, PwC\nResearch across the NZX\, ASX and further afield (FTSE100) shows executive STI are consistently paying out at levels close to target\, regardless of economic volatility and other factors. \nAs ‘no votes’ to remuneration reports increase within the ASX (‘say on pay’ regime)\, we explore the common challenges that are being laid down to STI efficacy\, and how we can take these learnings and apply them in the context of our own organisations. \nWork Reimagined: AI and the Workforce\nJenny Dicker\, Manager\, People Advisory Services – Reward\, EY\nEY’s 2025 Work Reimagined research examine’s AI’s impact on the global workforce – covering talent and AI advantage\, adoption maturity\, and the flow-on effects for skills\, culture and reward. \n\nPresenters:\n\n\n\nNeil WhiteKorn FerryRead bio ↗\nCathy HendryStrategic PayRead bio ↗\nTanya GilesPwCRead bio ↗\n\nJenny DickerEYRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15:00 – 15:30\n\nAfternoon Tea\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15:30 – 16:20\n\nPanel Discussion: Pay Under Pressure: Leadership Perspectives on Reward in Uncertain Times\n\nWith inflation\, cost pressure\, skill shortages\, organisational transformation and rising expectations that AI will lift productivity all in play\, reward leaders are increasingly being asked to make big calls with imperfect information\, and often with less time than they’d like. \nThis panel brings together senior reward and people leaders\, the people who actually make those calls\, for a candid conversation about how they’re handling it. How do you balance commercial reality against what employees expect? What do you do when the data is incomplete and nobody has written the playbook? And how do you reach a decision you can stand behind\, then take it to your executive\, your board and your people? \nExpect practical perspective rather than theory: the trade-offs they’ve weighed\, the judgement calls they’ve made\, and what they’ve learned along the way. \n\nPanellists:\n\n\n\nMelissa KlaricichGM Reward\nLactalisRead bio ↗\nSonia AskelundTribe Lead – People\nAir New ZealandRead bio ↗\nDoug ReidGroup Manager Reward & Analytics\nGenesis EnergyRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16:20 – 16:30\n\nDay One Wrap\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16:30 – 18:00\n\nNetworking Drinks\n\n\n\n\nDay Two\, Tuesday 17th November\n\n\n\n08:00 – 09:00\n\nNetworking Breakfast\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n09:00 – 09:05\n\nDay Two Opens\nAnjali Rajan\, RemNet Chair\nAnjali’s bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n09:05 – 09:35\n\nReward at the Tipping Point: Four Questions for Reward Leaders\nA presentation by Deloitte New Zealand.\n\nSarah and Shirley open day two with insights from Deloitte’s 2026 Global Human Capital Trends research and its New Zealand companion findings. The forces reshaping work are no longer future trends. AI\, changing workforce expectations\, greater transparency and rising accountability are today’s business realities\, and organisations now face tipping points rather than tensions to manage. For reward professionals\, pay can no longer be separated from workforce design\, data\, AI and governance. \nTogether Sarah and Shirley explore the questions reward leaders should be asking now: \n\nHow do we value work done by humans and AI together?\nCan we trust the workforce data behind our reward decisions?\nHow do we design reward for organisations that won’t sit still?\nHow can reward leaders help their organisations build trust?\n\n\nPresenters:\n\n\n\nSarah KeenanAssociate Director | Organisation Workforce Transformation\nDeloitte New ZealandRead bio ↗\nShirley WallsSenior Specialist Lead| Human Resource Strategy and Technology\nDeloitte New ZealandRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n09:35 – 10:05\n\nPay equity\, three years on: putting the analysis on autopilot\nBen Choo\, People Analytics & Systems Manager\, Genesis Energy\n\nIdentifying who is paid unfairly relative to their peers shouldn’t depend on one person slicing the data a dozen different ways. Genesis Energy has automated the process – turning a rules-based\, judgement-heavy analysis into a system that surfaces the candidates for you. \nBen shows how it works\, what it takes to build\, and what changes when your reward specialist starts with the answers instead of the spreadsheets. If pay equity analysis is still a manual annual scramble in your organisation\, this session is about what the alternative looks like – and how to make it stick. \n\n\n\n\nRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:05 – 10:35\n\nMorning Break\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:35 – 11:35\n\nFrom the Floor: Practitioner Discussion Rounds\n\nDelegates split into four groups and rotate through all four streams\, spending 15 minutes on each. Facilitated by RemNet Committee members. \nAfter hearing the latest research\, futurists and senior leaders\, it’s your turn. This session brings reward practitioners together in small\, facilitated groups to compare notes on the issues landing on your desks right now: what’s working\, what isn’t\, and what you’d do differently next time. \nA – Defending your pay decisions: communicating and justifying pay outcomes to employees\, unions and boards.\nFacilitated by Suzanne Florian\, Douglas Pharmaceuticals \nB – Making the most of a constrained budget: prioritising within a limited increase pool.\nFacilitated by Aimee Liang\, Hamilton City Council \nC – Benefits successes and failures: what resonated and what fell flat\, including salary sacrifice\, EVP refreshes and new benefits.\nFacilitated by Erica Wilson\, Fonterra \nD – AI a year on: what’s been adopted\, what’s been shelved\, and whether the productivity gains have materialised.\nFacilitated by Anjali Rajan\, Lactalis \n\nFacilitators:\n\n\n\nSuzanne FlorianHead of Remuneration & People Systems\nDouglas PharmaceuticalsRead bio ↗\nAimee LiangRemuneration & Benefits Lead\nHamilton City CouncilRead bio ↗\nErica WilsonHead of Reward\nFonterra Co-Operative GroupRead bio ↗\nAnjali RajanCompensation & Benefits\, HR Systems and Reporting Lead\nLactalis New ZealandRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:35 – 12:15\n\nBoosting Your Resilience and Ability to Respond\nLauren Parsons\, international speaker\, author\, and expert in resilience\, wellbeing\, and leadership.\n\nReward professionals spend a lot of time helping their organisations handle pressure. This session is about how you handle it yourself. \nPay season brings tight deadlines\, difficult conversations and decisions that are questioned from every direction. You might be explaining an outcome to an upset employee in the morning and defending the budget to the executive in the afternoon. Over time\, that pressure adds up. \nLauren Parsons closes RemNet 2026 with practical\, science-backed tools to help you stay steady\, think clearly and recover faster when the pressure is on. \nYou’ll leave with: \n\nThe five keys to mental resilience\, so you stay strong whatever is going on around you\nTools to stay clear-headed and composed when you’re defending hard calls under scrutiny\nInstant reset techniques to help you bounce back after a tough conversation or a knock-back\, instead of carrying it into the next one\nDaily habits that build resilience\, energy and vitality\, so the pressure of pay season doesn’t wear you down\n\nAfter two days focused on making confident pay decisions\, this session turns to you\, the person who makes them. Look forward to an energising\, practical close to the conference! \n\n\n\n\nRead bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:15 – 12:30\n\nConference Close\nAnjali Rajan\, RemNet Chair\nAnjali’s bio ↗\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:30 – 13:30\n\nLunch and Conference End
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