HR Practice For Payroll Practitioners

HR Practice for Payroll Practitioners

The Main Employment Legislation

New Zealand has created a framework of employment legislation that has developed over many decades. This legislation constantly changes depending on the government of the day.

To look at the full act, go to: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/

Employment Relations Act 2000

The Employment Relations Act 2000 provides the legal backdrop for all relationships between employees, employers and unions.

• Promotes the concepts of good faith and fair process.

• Promotes mediation as the first step when resolving employment relationship problems.

• Governs the personal grievance process.

• Established the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court, which help to resolve employment relationship problems.

Holidays Act 2003

The purpose of the Holidays Act 2003 is to promote balance between work and other aspects of employees’ lives and to provide employees with minimum entitlements such as: • minimum rights to annual leave, sick leave and bereavement leave

• dealing with payment for, and days in lieu of, public holidays.

Wages Protection Act 1983

• Provides that deductions from wages can only be made in limited circumstances. • Prohibits employment premiums (where an employee pays an employer in exchange for employment). • Prevents employers from controlling the manner in which employees spend wages.

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