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  • Medical Certificates

    This guide provides an overview of medical certificates in employment and privacy law as related to medical certificates.

  • Medical Examinations

    This guide covers the most common times when medical examinations and situations in which medical examinations in employment are considered.

  • Minimum Employment Code

    The term "minimum employment code” is often found in case law and legislation. It refers to those laws that protect the basic rights of employees (and in some instances, other people) in New Zealand to minimum standards of employment.

  • Minimum Wage Act 1983

    This guide outlines the current minimum wage and provides the key components to the Minimum Wage Act 1983.

  • Multi-employer Collective Agreements

    Multi-employer collective agreements (MECAs) are not new; they have existed in various forms under previous industrial laws.

  • Occupational Overuse Syndrome

    This guide provides information on what OOS is, how it may apply to your business, steps for prevention, how some cases should be managed and when a situation requires particularized and specialist advice.

  • Official Information Act

    This guide discusses the purpose and principles of the Official Information Act 1982.

  • Parental Leave

    Our premier guide that covers paid parental leave, extended leave and paternity leave under the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987.

  • 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 2000

  • 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.

  • 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.

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