Employer Bulletin | 3 February 2025
- Feb 2, 2025
- 1 min read
Here's what is leading the news for employers this week:
New visa conditions will now allow visitors to work remotely for an overseas employer or client. The change applies to applications received from 27 January 2025 for all visitors, including tourists and people visiting family, and partners and guardians on longer-term visitor visas.
These new conditions mean that tourists can stay in New Zealand as a digital nomad and keep in touch with work back home, without breaching their visa conditions.
Both visitor visa recipients and people who enter with an NZeTA (New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority) will receive these conditions.
Visitor visa holders must not:
Work for a New Zealand employer
Provide goods or services to people or businesses in New Zealand
Do work that requires them to be physically present at a workplace in New Zealand
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Employer dismisses employee by withdrawing job offer
Termination of employment for abandonment found to be unjustified
Flawed investigation leads to unjustified dismissal
Casual employee found to be permanent and unjustifiably dismissed
Employer unjustified in claiming gross negligence
Five news updates of interest for employers including: Budget will be delivered on 22 May; PM emphasises importance of growth in 2025; Trade and Investment Minister to hold trans-Tasman discussion; WorkSafe New Zealand welcomes new Deputy Chief Executive – Corporate; and Working remotely from New Zealand.
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