Employer Bulletin | 3 February
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
In today’s Bulletin:
- 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.
- Twelve bills open for submission
If you have any questions, about this case or other employment relation matters, call the Advice Line team on 0800 800 362.
