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Employers Assistance Ltd
Employment Law Support since 1995
Supporting employers, business owners and managers with Employment Law, HR and compliance issues nationwide. Our Employers Toolbox cloud based HRIS ensures you have instant access to the latest templates and legal documents to best protect your business. Everything developed and written by our in house legal team with the employer in mind.
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Abandonment Of Employment
Wednesday, 6 March 2024, 11:52 am | Employers Assistance Ltd
We often field calls from frustrated employers wishing to terminate staff for abandoning their employment, whereupon on following a short discussion it prevails that abandonment of employment is not the case at all. Abandonment of employment is a very specific ... More >>
Pre-employment Questionnaires In Employers Toolbox
Friday, 8 December 2023, 11:08 am | Employers Assistance Ltd
One of the most important steps in the hiring process is getting job applicants to complete an appropriate and relevant pre-employment questionnaire. This should be completed by an job applicant well in advance of an employer making any formal ... More >>
Bulk ESign Policies
Thursday, 23 February 2023, 2:54 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
The latest updates to the Employers Toolbox include a new feature extending the flexibility of the eSigning platform. Through the eSigning platform you now have the ability to electronically send your documents to all staff and get them to acknowledge ... More >>
Want To Give Staff More Than 4 Weeks' Annual Leave?
Friday, 5 August 2022, 11:26 am | Employers Assistance Ltd
With the current struggle to recruit and retain staff following the effects of COVID-19 on the business environment and people's motivation and mental health, employers are looking more than ever at ways of engaging and appeasing staff to keep them engaged ... More >>
New Contact Tracing Rules For Business
Wednesday, 22 September 2021, 3:22 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
Businesses are required to display a NZ COVID Tracer QR code AND have an alternative way people can record their visit. All people aged 12 and above must sign in and businesses have a responsibility to ensure this is happening. These new rules come ... More >>
Can Staff Work Multiple Jobs?
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 1:36 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
There is nothing in legislation specifically disallowing people from working more than one job, including being self-employed. Nor is there anything generally limiting the maximum hours they can work. Some industries have regulations around continous ... More >>
Leave Without Pay
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 11:43 am | Employers Assistance Ltd
A common misconception we see repeated, usually from staff, is that to take leave without pay (LWOP) is their right, or that employees should be allowed to take time off work for extended periods when they need, providing they don't expect payment. ... More >>
Dismissing Casual Staff
Monday, 7 December 2020, 12:18 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
The nature of a true and legitimate casual relationship between an employee and employer, is that the employer offers work/hours on an irregular basis to the casual employee, who can then choose to accept or decline the offered work/hours. There ... More >>
Beware Fixed Term Agreements Over 12 Months
Friday, 30 October 2020, 1:22 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
As we enter into the summer harvest season of 2020, the increase of seasonal employment is providing different challenges from previous years. With many new issues arising in the employment relationship with the dawn of a pandemic, seasonal employers are ... More >>
Don’t Be Scared Of WorkSafe
Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 1:58 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
The latest PR exercise from WorkSafe NZ encourages businesses not to be scared of WorkSafe and to fully engage with assistance offered from them. They cite an example from a Masterton based printing firm where an experienced staff member cut their ... More >>
Validity Of Medical Certificates
Friday, 7 August 2020, 6:05 am | Employers.co.nz
As per the Business NZ Workplace Wellness Report 2019, New Zealand lost around 7.4 million working days due to absences in 2018. Time lost to absence averaged 4.7 days per employee, and it's estimated to cost the economy $NZD 1.79 billion. These figures ... More >>
New Workplace Hazard- The Bore-Out
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 12:22 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
A landmark ruling in France, has seen an employee win the equivalent of $87,000.00 for boredom or the 'bore-out' syndrome. Bore-out is a term identified by a pair of Swiss business men in 2007 and is reportedly the opposite of 'burnout' at work. Having ... More >>
Post Covid-19 Redundancies
Monday, 1 June 2020, 1:33 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
No one in business foresaw the pandemic causing a global shut down with such short notice. New Zealand went from alert levels 2 to 4 in 3 days forcing the majority of business to completely cease trading. Such unprecedented actions forced business ... More >>
The Conundrum of Deductions
Thursday, 16 January 2020, 2:08 pm | Employers.co.nz
Can I withhold payment or deduct money from payment due to my employee – certainly one of our top 10 FAQs but most of the time the answer is no. More >>
ERA Hiking Employee Awards
Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 5:34 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
Recent Employment Relations Authority (ERA) cases have amply demonstrated the state of the nation with respect to employee awards for poor terminations. More >>
Rugby World Cup - passion or poison
Monday, 23 September 2019, 9:19 am | Employers Assistance Ltd
Everywhere you look it’s there – Rugby World Cup 2019 has arrived. From advertisements to endorsements to competitions, you are sure to be aware, if not excited about the big event. More >>
Government support for Personal Grievances
Monday, 2 September 2019, 5:48 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
Employers are generally aware that an employee can raise a personal grievance at any point during or after the employment relationship. They are supposed to raise the matter within a 90 day period following the respective event occurring, but if ... More >>
Retail workers demand Living Wage
Thursday, 22 August 2019, 4:33 pm | Employers Assistance Ltd
Following the recent case where the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) ordered 2 Mitre10 stores to pay staff above the minimum wage , as predicted we are now seeing more retail workers and their Unions protesting for the same. More >>
10 Year High in Workplace Fatalities
Thursday, 1 August 2019, 11:43 am | Employers Assistance Ltd
Eleven workers have died this year alone in the construction industry contributing 28% to national count which currently stands at 39 for this year 2019. More >>
Quad bikes need crush protection devices
Monday, 17 June 2019, 11:05 am | Employers Assistance Ltd
It's a well known fact that there are serious health & safety risks around the use of quad bikes. Since 2000 statistics tell us an average of 5 people per year die from their use, not to mention all the injuries which ACC say they receive over ... More >>
