Resources
Strikes & Lockouts
This guide provides information on strikes and lockouts which may occur either lawfully or unlawfully.
Student Loan Deductions
Some employees may have student loans and this guide provides detailed information on how to deduct student loan payments from salaries and wages.
Superannuation Fund Contributions
This guide provides an overview of the tax treatment of employer contributions to superannuation funds.
Surveillance
This guide provides an overview of covert and overt surveillance in the workplace and considers an employer’s obligations involving privacy, trust, confidence and good faith.
Suspension
This guide discusses the suspension of employees during disciplinary procedures and of both striking and non-striking employees during a strike.
Termination of Employment
This guide provides an overview of the circumstances that lead to termination and factors to consider when the employment relationship is ending.
Trial and Probationary Periods
Use this guide to understand the differences and benefits to a trial period and a probationary period and the conditions you must meet before you can successfully apply a trial period.
Triangular Employment
The Act deals with personal grievances arising out of triangular employment arrangements. A triangular employment arrangement is generally made up of three parties – the employee, the employer and the ‘controlling third party’.
Undue Influence Duress
Undue influence and duress are two terms that have significance outside employment law; both are equitable remedies that allow one party to escape from a contract.
Unions
Vicarious Liability
Sometimes an employee causes damage while they are performing their duties. This guide discusses the liability of an employer to pay for that damage.
Volunteers
Our premier guide to understanding volunteers. This includes understanding the difference between volunteers and employees, as well as tax implications when volunteers are rewarded for their services.
Volunteers Employment Protection Act
When employees who are in the territorial or reserve forces go on protected voluntary service their employment is protected. This guide discusses what an employer needs to do in such a case.
Vulnerable Employees
Special provisions in the Act apply to a specified category of employees commonly referred to as “vulnerable workers”.
Waitangi Day
This guide discusses Waitangi Day as a public holiday.
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