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  • Stress and Fatigue

    This guide provides some information on how stress and/or fatigue should be prevented and managed and when to get specialist advice.

  • Strikes & Lockouts

    This guide provides information on strikes and lockouts which may occur either lawfully or unlawfully.

  • Student Loan Deductions

    Some employees may have student loans and this guide provides detailed information on how to deduct student loan payments from salaries and wages.

  • Superannuation Fund Contributions

    This guide provides an overview of the tax treatment of employer contributions to superannuation funds.

  • Surveillance

    This guide provides an overview of covert and overt surveillance in the workplace and considers an employer’s obligations involving privacy, trust, confidence and good faith.

  • Suspension

    This guide discusses the suspension of employees during disciplinary procedures and of both striking and non-striking employees during a strike.

  • Termination of Employment

    This guide provides an overview of the circumstances that lead to termination and factors to consider when the employment relationship is ending.

  • Trial and Probationary Periods

    Use this guide to understand the differences and benefits to a trial period and a probationary period and the conditions you must meet before you can successfully apply a trial period.

  • Triangular Employment

    The Act deals with personal grievances arising out of triangular employment arrangements. A triangular employment arrangement is generally made up of three parties – the employee, the employer and the ‘controlling third party’.

  • Undue Influence Duress

    Undue influence and duress are two terms that have significance outside employment law; both are equitable remedies that allow one party to escape from a contract.

  • Unions

    A union’s role in promoting improvements in work health and safety practices and assisting PCBUs and workers to achieve a healthier and safer working environment

  • Vicarious Liability

    Sometimes an employee causes damage while they are performing their duties. This guide discusses the liability of an employer to pay for that damage.

  • Volunteers

    Our premier guide to understanding volunteers. This includes understanding the difference between volunteers and employees, as well as tax implications when volunteers are rewarded for their services.

  • Vulnerable Employees

    Special provisions in the Act apply to a specified category of employees commonly referred to as “vulnerable workers”.

  • Waitangi Day

    This guide discusses Waitangi Day as a public holiday.

  • Work and Life Balance

    The promotion of work-life balance is based on the idea that it is a benefit to both an employee and an employer for a worker to have a healthy balance between their job and their life outside work.

  • Worker Engagement, Participation and Representation

    Understand your obligations in involving your employees in health and safety matters in your workplace with the election of H&S Representatives and the establishment of an H&S Committee. 

  • Workplace Assessment

    Our guide describes the requirements of work skills to the national external qualification framework.

  • WorkSafe NZ

    This guide provides information on WorkSafe NZ and also provides a list of relevant OSH forms.

  • Young Persons

    This guide gives advice on treating young people in the workplace. It includes minimum wage and tax treatment information.

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