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  • House Rules and Employee Handbook

    Your policies and procedures should be linked to your employment agreements, and must take into account your obligations under the legislation that governs your employment relationships.

  • Human Rights

    This guide provides an overview on discrimination, the Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Tribunal.

  • Illegal Contract Act 1970

    This guide provides a brief overview on the Illegal Contracts Act.

  • Illegal File Sharing

    Our premier guide to understanding how the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 works and how to avoid becoming liable for your employees activities.

  • Immigration

    Use this guide to understand your legal obligations if you wish to employ people from overseas.

  • Incapacity

    This guide addresses what an employer’s obligations are when faced with an employee’s incapacity and how the situation should be managed.

  • Incompatibility

    This guide provides some indication of what incompatibility means, when and how the term should be used, and what your obligations are in managing an instance of it.

  • Individual Employment Agreements

    Use this guide to help you understand Individual Employment Agreements including minimum requirements, good faith bargaining, what to do when a collective employment agreement is in force and terms of employment.

  • Information & Communications Technology Policies

    Information and communications technology policies (ICT policies) explain to your employees the intended use of all of your organisation’s information and communication technology, and what will constitute misuse and abuse.

  • Informed Consent

    Use this guide to understand informed consent in an employment context and the legislation that promotes and protects it.

  • IRD Audits

    This guide gives a general overview of what is involved in an IRD audit.

  • Job Descriptions

    A job description (or position description) should reflect a comprehensive analysis of what the employee will be required to do, how they will be required to do it and what the required result will be in relation to the position.

  • 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.

  • Lawful and Reasonable Instruction

    This guide outlines disobedience and insubordination and gives advice on how to manage both situations.

  • 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.

  • Mediation

    A brief description of the mediation facility available to employers and employees to resolve employment disputes.

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