Resources

This guide discusses the emergence of social media in the workplace and the possible issues it may present at the different stages of the employment relationship.

This guide provides some information on how stress and/or fatigue should be prevented and managed and when to get specialist advice.

This guide provides information on strikes and lockouts which may occur either lawfully or unlawfully.

Some employees may have student loans and this guide provides detailed information on how to deduct student loan payments from salaries and wages.

This guide provides an overview of the tax treatment of employer contributions to superannuation funds.

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.

This guide discusses the suspension of employees during disciplinary procedures and of both striking and non-striking employees during a strike.

This guide provides an overview of the circumstances that lead to termination and factors to consider when the employment relationship is ending.

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.

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 and duress are two terms that have significance outside employment law; both are equitable remedies that allow one party to escape from a contract.

Sometimes an employee causes damage while they are performing their duties. This guide discusses the liability of an employer to pay for that damage.

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.

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.

Special provisions in the Act apply to a specified category of employees commonly referred to as “vulnerable workers”.

This guide discusses Waitangi Day as a public holiday.

The promotion of work-life balance is based on the idea that it is a benefit to both an employee and an employer for a worker to have a healthy balance between their job and their life outside work.

Understand your obligations in involving your employees in health and safety matters in your workplace with the election of H&S Representatives and the establishment of an H&S Committee. 

Our guide describes the requirements of work skills to the national external qualification framework.