HR Practice For Payroll Practitioners

HR Practice for Payroll Practitioners

Employment agreements

Underpinning all employment agreements are the requirements included in the Employment Relations Act 2000. This Act is the main piece of employment legislation in New Zealand.

For a payroll practitioner you will come across the following types of employment agreements:

Type of agreement Permanent

Description

This is for your continuing employees’ working hours that have been defined as permanent. The relationship will go indefinitely until either party terminates the agreement.

Part time

Part-time is defined by the agreement. It can state the days and times the part-time employee will work or the number of hours in any one week. Even if you have a person working one day they should have an employment agreement. A casual employee is one who works as and when required. They do not have set hours and do not have a pattern of continuous employment like other employees. This type of agreement is for a set period of time, or event or project. Once the agreement reaches the set criteria the relationship finishes. To have a collective in a workplace there must be a union as a party to the agreement. One of the most important sections of a collective is the coverage clause because it defines who the agreement applies to.

Casual

Fixed

Collective

* One of the most important activities for a payroll practitioner to do is to read and understand the contents of the employment agreements that are present in the workplace.

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