Q: I would like to understand technique to adjust AL hours when an employee changes working hours/ pattern? Does Holiday Act stipulate, the daily accrual or equivalent hours/ days be captured
Paytech Category: Holidays Act 2003
Annual Leave taken to top up Covid Subsidy
Q: We have a few clients who allow their staff to top up their covid subsidy payment with annual leave (the employee has no sick leave or alternate leave available
Annual Leave entitlements
Q: If a casual employee becomes permanent part way through the year, upon anniversary is the annual leave entitlement provided pro-rated based on portion of permanent status or is it
AWE
Q: When an employee is on LWOP due to being on ACC, should the weeks not being paid be included in the divisor when calculating AWP? A: If the employee
Public Holiday
Q: If an employee has booked a day of leave without pay (it’s a working/rostered day for them normally) and a Public Holiday falls on it, would they be entitled
Gross earnings for AWE & ADP
Q: Would ADP use the exact same gross earnings that would be used for AWE? As an example, if an employee were to receive a quarterly bonus, would that get
Paying out ex employee outstanding holiday pay
Q: A Client has an ex employee (from 5 years ago) that they are required to make payments to based on ruling from ERA for unpaid holiday pay. The company
Average weekly income
Q: I have one employee on the following package: Normal pay: $15,000.00 fixed per month Car allowance: $1,500.00 fixed per month Kiwisaver allowance: $500.00 fixed per month Car allowance and
NZ annual leave taken
Q: As I remember in the training from previous years, you mentioned that the annual leave taken needs to be paid at the rate of when the leave was taken.
Holidays Act Remediation Calculations
Q: We are currently in the process of finalising holiday act remediation and making payments to those who have been deemed as being underpaid. I recall during one of the
Public Holiday Payment for Exiting Employee?
Q: I just found out that today is (unexpectedly) the last day for one of our NZ 24/7 continuous shift workers. The site’s roster is such that the employee works
Transferring Leave and what leave rate to use
Q: We have an employee who transferred from our overseas entity to our NZ company and bought with them 450 hours of annual leave from their overseas employment. The transfer
Annual and sick leave balances to show on payslips
Q: Can I please get confirmation that annual and sick leave balances have to appear on payslips from 1 April 2022? A: There is no legislative requirement to provide a
Sick leave entitlement testing
Q: Every pay cycle we run a holiday anniversary report which also shows us the 6 month anniversary for casual staff from their contract commencement date. At this 6mth anniversary
Bereavement Leave/ Sick Leave while on Annual leave
Q: Can you please clarify for me around bereavement and sick leave entitelement to use WHEN ON annual leave. So if someone has a death in the family WHILE they
Payment for Sick Leave – Commissions
Q: We’ve had an employee raise a question with us about whether commissions would be included in their sick leave rate of pay. Our payroll is a monthly cycle (annual
LWOP and Sick leave
Q: I understand Annual leave is not accrued during extended periods of LWOP, but does the anniversary date for Sick leave also get pushed out until return to normal duties?
Sick leave – variable hour staff
Q: I have a query – My client has House Keeping staff that are contracted to work 50 hours a fortnight and are currently do more than that, however they
Paying Annual Leave to employees on ACC
Q: I have an employer who has had an employee on ACC for a long period of time. Their gross earnings have been $3000 in the last 18 months. He
Final Pay – PAYE – Lump Sum v’s “Alternative approach”
Q: We’ve had an accountant question the PAYE calculation for an employee’s final pay, he sent me the below. I know years ago that the PAYE was smoothed over the