If you operate a Retail activity and wish to employ someone to work on Easter Sunday you must understand the new laws affecting this. You cannot in any way require them to work this day - but have to give them the choice of not working - it's tougher than a Stat day.
Read more about 'New Law affecting Retail workers'...Terminating employment for medical reasons is challenging for all involved, so before you can do this you need to have attempted everything reasonable to get the person back to work. There are tried and tested paths for this, and they need to be worked on early.
Read more about 'Medical Termination'...Paying 8% holiday pay as you go may seem easy and avoid having to give leave - but if a contract goes over 12 months it can cost you - actual paid leave in addition.
Read more about 'Pay as you go – Holiday Pay'...90-day trial clauses must indicate when they start. And if done right this can be after completion of a pre-employment test.
Read more about '90-day Trial – yet again!'...Recent law changes have highlighted the need to comply with the Wages Protection Act and it is starting to bite - a Wellington Grocer has had to pay $53,000.
Read more about 'Protecting Wages - complying with the law'...A recent Court case has highlighted the need to only pay for leave as you go in certain situations - when your employee is employed fixed term for less than...
Read more about 'Paying Annual Leave as you go'...This law takes effect on 4 April. If you have not yet done so, you should update your system. For effective systems this should not be too difficult - checklist below. You could make it part of an annual review of the system.
Read more about 'Complying with the Health and Safety at Work Act'...Minimum wage rates will increase to $15.25 from 1 April (and training rates from $11.80 to $12.20). This is a 3.5% increase in times where inflation is down at 0.1%.
Read more about 'Increase in Minimum Wage Rate 1 April'...Employment Standards Legislation is applicable from 4 April. It introduces serious penalties for a breach of minimum standards. Do you record exact hours worked by all staff? Do you need staff to be available to work just when they are needed or need to cancel shifts at short notice? Do you need to stop staff taking other jobs? All are affected.
Read more about 'New law requires accurate records of hours worked and reduces flexibility in working hours. Plus onerous penalties can be imposed. '...Read this if you are concerned about an employee stealing and using your customer database against you. Tex Onsite have just been awarded some $110,000 against a previous employee who stole customer information and broke a non-solicitation clause.
Read more about 'Court Supports Non-Solicitation clause'...