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  • Accident Compensation

    This guide covers an employer's obligations when a person suffers a work-related personal injury and is incapacitated.

  • Allowances (Travel & Mileage)

    This guide provides employers with guidelines on travel allowances and includes information on motor vehicle reimbursement rates.

  • Annual Holidays

    Our premier guide to employer obligations under the Holidays Act. It includes definitions of key terms, calculation of annual holiday payment, and the relationship between annual leave and other types of leave.

  • ANZAC Day

    This guide sets out information on employee pay in regard to Anzac day business closures.

  • Bereavement Leave

    This guide provides an overview of bereavement leave in employment. It includes information on payment and time off available for employees who have suffered a bereavement.

  • Breaks

    This A-Z guide provides a brief outline of the requirements for employers in regard to the provision of rest, meal and infant feeding breaks in the workplace.

  • Child Support Deductions

    This guide discusses an employer’s obligation in relation to child support deductions.

  • Deductions (Wages Protection)

    Use this guide to understand the law regarding the payment of wages, when it is lawful to make deductions from an employee’s pay, when wages can be withheld from an employee and when the overpayment of wages to an employee can be recovered.

  • Easter Sunday

    This guide provides information on the trading restrictions on retail shops during Easter Sunday.

  • Employment Relations Education Leave

    This guide covers the leave allocated by unions to eligible employees for education to increase their knowledge about employment relations.

  • Family Violence

    The Domestic Violence – Victims’ Protection Act 2018 (“the Act”) came into force on 1 April 2019. Its core purpose is to provide specific legal protections for victims of family violence, and importantly, to support them to stay in paid employment.

  • Holidays Act

    Our premier guide explains employee minimum entitlements in regard to annual holidays, public holidays, sick leave and bereavement leave.

  • Jury Service

    This guide covers jury service from an employment context including deferral, excusal and fees.

  • KiwiSaver

    Our premier guide to understanding the KiwiSaver legislation and the obligations it places on the employer.

  • Labour Inspectors Guide

    One of the objectives of the Employment Relations Act is to promote the effective enforcement of employment standards, in particular by conferring enforcement powers on Labour Inspectors, the Employment Relations Authority and the Employment Court.

  • Leave Forms

    This guide includes samples of various leave forms including forms for; annual, sick, bereavement and parental leave.

  • Long Service Leave

    This is a term sometimes used for leave that is additional to the minimum requirements as set out by the Holidays Act 2003.

  • Medical Certificates

    This guide provides an overview of medical certificates in employment and privacy law as related to medical certificates.

  • Medical Examinations

    This guide covers the most common times when medical examinations and situations in which medical examinations in employment are considered.

  • Minimum Wage Act 1983

    This guide outlines the current minimum wage and provides the key components to the Minimum Wage Act 1983.

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