Resources

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.

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. 

A template policy for working from home.

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

This guide provides information on WorkSafe NZ and also provides a list of relevant OSH forms.

This guide gives advice on treating young people in the workplace. It includes minimum wage and tax treatment information.