Culture Shift NZ Ltd

05/12/2025

Culture Shift NZ Ltd has had dealings with Manukau Urban Māori Authority CEO Tania Rangiheuea, from when she was principal of Waatea School, which is located on the MUMA site.

Director Allan Halse knows and respects union man and ex Member of Parliament Matt McCarten.

Check out the article, link and extract below:

"Willie Jackson is being accused of using his own political power to silence staff, sideline union organisers, and bury a damaging review that found serious misconduct by his wife, Manukau Urban Māori Authority CEO Tania Rangiheuea.

Former Labour power broker Matt McCarten has laid a formal complaint with Speaker Gerry Brownlee, alleging Jackson pressured and threatened MUMA’s long-serving board chair after an independent review recommended Rangiheuea’s removal.

McCarten’s account describes political influence used to sack a chair, install Labour-friendly replacements and shut down collective bargaining efforts involving vulnerable workers."



Has MP misused his muscle at MUMA? MSM shuns meddling claims by Matt McCarten in complaint against Willie Jackson – Point of Order

Bob Edlin writes – Bullying accusations against Labour’s Willie Jackson are highlighted in two of the dozens of news headlines listed on the Democracy’s Project’s News Briefing: 4 December 2…

05/12/2025

If you live in Hamilton and have next Tuesday, 9 December 2025, free, then head to the Distinction Hotel & Conference Centre at 10am to watch the "open to public" Employment Relations Authority (ERA) investigation meeting.

Culture Shift NZ Ltd director Allan Halse is representing a blue collar worker who has been with his Te Rapa employer, now owned by Australia, for nearly 14 years.

You will see the disparity of power as the employer will bring two corporate lawyers down from Auckland.

If you are interested in employment relations and/or you have your own case, come along and watch.

29/11/2025

Why does the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) operate in SECRECY?

The ERA is neither a court nor a tribunal, and all those jurisdictions audio record, so the ERA is unique but in a bad way.

I've seen so much abuse take place in ERA investigation meetings that I can understand that some ERA members want to hid any evidence of that behaviour occuring.

Employment New Zealand and the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety, the Hon Brooke van Velden must immediately allow audio recordings of ERA investigation meetings (and telephone case management conferences) or explain how they believe that a government jurisdiction is allowed to let "abuse survive in secrecy".

28/11/2025

29 COALMINERS DIED AT PIKE RIVER IN NOVEMBER 2010 AND NO ONE HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR DEATHS.

WorkSafe NZ was created late 2013 as a consequence of the Pike River tragedy and the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 was introduced to prepare such an tragedy occurring again.

"On the afternoon of 19 November 2010, an explosion ripped through the remote Pike River mine on the West Coast of the South Island, killing 29 men. Their bodies have not been recovered, and remain in the mine."

The must watch Pike River movie can be seen free on line - link below.

Pike River | Television | NZ On Screen

Pike River - A catastrophic gas explosion shocked the Pike River coal mine on 19 November 2010, claiming the lives of 29 men who were trapped inside. Unknown to those involved, a perfect storm of systemic failures had been brewing right from the outset of the mine's planning and construction. This d...

27/11/2025

REPRESENTING BULLIED WORKERS AND EXPOSING SERIOUS WRONGDOING IN NEW ZEALAND IS A VERY DANGEROUS OCCUPATION AND I AM LIVING PROOF OF THAT.

"Employment advocate Allan Halse says he is confident he can stave off bankruptcy and stay in business following an apparently ruinous High Court ruling against him."



Culture Shift NZ Ltd Employment New Zealand Stuff New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

The comments below are mostly accurate but the there appears to be an implication in the comment that I have nothing in "my own name" - see quote - “everything is rented - I have nothing in my own name”. I have no assets and there are no hidden assets. The court has affidavits from me to that effect.

The full article of Waikato Times of journalist Mike Mather is shown below:

"The judgement, released on Monday by Justice Peter Andrew, orders Halse to pay $165,000 to liquidators of his former company CultureSafe.

It effectively reverses an earlier decision made by a judge in the Hamilton District Court in December last year, in which Halse was given a reprieve over an application for summary judgement filed by lawyers acting for liquidators Khov Jones, for the sum of $165,289.84 - plus interests and costs.

Speaking on Wednesday, the self-styled bully battler was himself in a bullish mood.

“Where does it leave me? It leaves me exactly where I was ... As far as I’m concerned, it’s business as usual, standing up for bullied workers.”

Halse said he intended to challenge the High Court ruling in the Court of Appeal, and he was also looking into other means of fighting the decision through the United Nations’ Human Rights Council.

https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/360899388/bully-battler-allan-halse-says-its-business-usual-following-165k-court-ruling

To that end he had recently travelled to the United Kingdom, where he had sought the advice and guidance of a King’s Counsel.

Halse operates his new advocacy business - titled CultureShiftNZ - out of a home in Ōhaupō, and that business was going well.

However, he said he had no property to sell to fund the $165,000 he owed the liquidators - “everything is rented - I have nothing in my own name” - and he would be applying to the court for a stay of payment until a decision on his appeal was made.

Halse said he had been surprised by Justice Andrew’s ruling.

“We expected a different outcome. They should have gone back to the substantive matter. There has never been a hearing where the evidence has been produced - and under natural justice I deserve to face my accusers and cross-examine them.

“How can I win a case if I can’t give evidence? That’s why it’s going to the UN.”

Applying for bankruptcy was not an option, he said.

“Why would I do that? That’s what the people who want to see me go out of business want - the people who want to stop me representing bullied workers.”

Halse said his job entailed calling many employers out on alleged bad behaviour, and that had made him a lot of enemies.

“I see corruption every day in the work that I do. I expose it and I get attacked.”

Halse did not pay himself a salary out of his businesses, and said his personal income came out of a portion of the settlements he won for his clients.

“The clients get the money and we pay our costs.”

Halse said his new firm was proving a success. There were currently 261 active cases on CultureShiftNZ’s books, and of the last 18 cases he had dealt with there had been settlements achieved in 15.

The new company employed a team of five, but Halse said he was the sole advocate.

“I’m booked with work until the end of next year. My staff line things up for me, and I rock up and do it.”

Halse, who was formerly a property manager at the Hamilton City Council, is well known in employment circles.

He began making headlines after he was dismissed by his former employers at the council. He challenged the decision and settled with the council after mediation.

“My entire payout from the Hamilton City Council was spent helping bullied workers ... It’s how I operate. I take no sponsorship, I take no grants, I take no donations - apart from when an attempt was made to bankrupt me earlier.

“For eight years there have been attempts to bankrupt me by taxpayer or ratepayer-funded lawyers ... That’s my reality.”"

For most, having a High Court judge ordering you to pay $165,000 would be devastating. For employment advocate Allan Halse it’s been galvanising.

26/11/2025

The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) is not a Court, nor a Tribunal.

The ERA is a low level investigative body but some of their members have an inflated opinion of themselves and they are reluctant to be captured on record.

Only abusers ban audio recordings and one wonders what the ERA are trying to hide.

Since Culturesafe NZ Ltd (now Culture Shift NZ Ltd) started in March 2014, Allan Halse has audio recorded every client/employer meeting and those audios have become evidence that has won cases.

Employment New Zealand Public Service Association Stuff Newstalk ZB

24/11/2025

Leaving Nelson early, for Auckland and Whangārei after Summit Property Management Ltd refused to engage at MBIE mediation.

I will be back on Monday, 9 & Tuesday 10 March 2026, for the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) investigation meeting when Culture Shift NZ Ltd will expose the bullying manager who cost our client her job.

21/11/2025

WORKPLACE BULLYING AND THE RESULTANT PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM.

IS NEW ZEALAND'S LAST TABOO THE REASON FOR THE RECORD EXODUS OF OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST WORKERS.

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

Newstalk ZB

Employment New Zealand

These articles by Otago Times Assistant Editor Paul Gorman in which Culture Shift NZ Ltd director Allan Halse features prominently, lifts the lid on the "Abuse exists in secrecy" in some MBIE mediations.

The absolute waste of taxpayer money being used by New Zealand's public services and other taxpayer organizations to pay external lawyers to cover up workplace bullying is something that the Public Service Association union should be protesting about.

Read the articles below to learn more.

20/11/2025

Workers in a 1st world democracy are entitled to return home safely after their days work.

Culture Shift NZ Ltd is pleased to see that a business owner was imprisoned today (see link to article below) for killing a road worker while operating a truck that should never have been allowed on the road.

In 2010, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, 29 coal miners were killed (and no, it was preventable and therefore wasn't an accident) in an UNSAFE mine. 29 deaths and no one was imprisoned and why was that? Clearly New Zealand's Crown Law were the people who decided not to prosecute the mine owners, senior managers and anyone else responsible for the deaths.

How about tracking down the Crown Law legal team and prosecuting them for not prosecuting those who were responsible for killing the 29 coal miners?

Subsequently a National Government created Worksafe NZ and passed the the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 to strengthen and ensure health and safety compliance.

Sadly, Worksafe NZ have never prosecuted a single psychological harm case (caused by workplace bullying and other workplace abuse) and consequently BAD employers bully and dismiss employees and health and safety reps and advisors who draw attention to the unsafe work practices and workplace abuse.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360892194/needless-death-business-owner-jailed-after-unsafe-truck-killed-roadworker?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOLwhdjbGNrA4vBl2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnkuKV-sReCtXQsXYmuKjUD2UXzKHe9ahEqoF7gWX6S3mK8IzAauaDmy1Rsd_aem_xhuK_QCZ3c_U6p7rWZ8yhQ

Jonno Walters was working when he was crushed by an unsafe 20-tonne truck.