Govt’s bill axes right to smoko

The law change will let bosses decide when work breaks will be taken. The Government has introduced a law change that will allow bosses to withhold workers’ regular breaks, and

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Relocation Payments

New legislation has clarified the treatment of relocation payments as exempt income to employees and under what circumstances. What has changed for relocation payments? The government has exempted payments (not

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Volunteers and Honoraria Payments

The government has updated legislation regarding payments made to people who volunteer their time and service. Who is a volunteer? For the purposes of honoraria and reimbursement payments, a volunteer

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NZ Public Holiday Dates

If you want the dates for upcoming and future public holidays the Employment Relations Service (DOL) has done all the work for you, right up to 2016! Use the following

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Govt to open ACC to competition

Thursday Oct 22, 2009 The Government will open ACC to competition after striking a deal that will see the ACT Party support proposed ACC legislation when it comes before Parliament

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ACC levies set to jump

1:48PM Wednesday Oct 14, 2009 Changes to ACC are likely to cost the family on the average income of $45,000 an extra $315 a year. ACC has today released its

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Special report – payroll giving (IRD)

Legislation introducing the new voluntary payroll-giving scheme for charitable donations, which comes into effect on 7 January 2010, is part of the recently enacted Taxation (International Taxation, Life Insurance, and

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IRD Payroll specification document update

There is a new version of the payroll specification document available on the Inland Revenue website at:   http://www.ird.govt.nz/payroll-employers/software-developers/software-specs/   This new version includes the following:   * Inclusion of

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