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  • PAYE

    Our premier guide to PAYE deductions. It includes information on different tax codes, record keeping and filing, as well as taxing holiday pay and redundancy payments.

  • Performance Management

    Our premier guide to conducting performance management which includes a sample procedure.

  • Personal Grievances

    This guide provides an overview of Personal Grievance claims against an employer, how they are raised, discussed, and potentially resolved.

  • Pre-Employment Checks

    Your guide to using pre-employment checks to confirm that an applicant is suited to the position offered, and be able to identify where they may be considered discriminatory.

  • Privacy

    This guide deals with the Privacy Act 2020 and concentrates on employers’ obligations to their employees and any other issues that arise out of employment.

  • Private Health and Safety Prosecutions

    This guide provides information on what is required before a private prosecution can be taken and information on what must be established by the prosecution in those proceedings.

  • Protected Disclosures Act 2022

    The Act extends the definition of serious wrongdoing to cover the misuse of public funds and delivery of public services by the private sector. It also enables disclosers to report directly to an appropriate authority at any time

  • Public Holidays

    Our premier guide on dealing with public holidays. Included is information on payments for working/not working public holidays and alternative holidays.

  • Qualifications

    This guide sets out some of the issues around qualifications in respect to verification and misrepresentation.

  • Records

    This guide discusses a variety of records that employers should retain, either by law or because they assist in the managing of employees and the workplace.

  • Recruitment and Selection

    Use this guide to understand the two-step process of recruiting the best pool of candidates, then selecting the most appropriate person for your vacancy.

  • References

    Understand how to establish the validity of a reference, the privacy constraints in regards to collecting information through references, obligations when providing a reference and obligations when obtaining a reference.

  • Restraints of Trade

    Deterrence is a good reason for including restraint of trade clauses in your employment agreements. This is a guide to understanding restraints of trade, including information on enforceability and what remedies are available for a breach.

  • Restructuring and Redundancy

    This A-Z Guide provides you with grounding in what the courts consider redundancy to mean, and how it should be approached so that you comply with your obligations under the Employment Relations Act 2000.

  • Retirement

    This guide provides an overview of the issues around retirement which employers need to be aware of.

  • Sample of Plain Language ERP Clause

    This procedure applies to the resolution of all employment relationship problems and personal grievance matters within our organisation. You are reminded that an employment relationship problem is as defined in the Employment Relations Act 2000 and in your employment agreement

  • Shop Trading Restrictions

    Within this guide is an outline of the shop trading restrictions on Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Christmas Day and ½ of ANZAC Day.

  • Sick Leave

    Our premier guide to understanding sick leave entitlements and how payment for sick leave is calculated.

  • Smoke Free Environments Act

    Use this guide to understand your obligations under the Smoke-free Environments Act 1990 and the consequences of failing to meet those obligations as well as how to address smoking in the workplace while complying with the law.

  • Social Media

    This guide discusses the emergence of social media in the workplace and the possible issues it may present at the different stages of the employment relationship.

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