Q: We pay our employees based on days and don’t intend to change that in the near future. Ie Payslips show number of days worked, leave is requested and shown
Paytech Category: Holidays Act 2003
Entitlement at 12 months?
Q: We have a question regarding Section 28 (3)(b) of the Act and would appreciate if you could assist with our understanding. Where the holiday pay entitlement at 12 months
Annual leave and ACC
Q: Could you please clarify annual leave entitlements for employees who have been on ACC for almost a year? The employee I am querying about was Full time and previously
Sick Leave
Q: If an employee was full time then moved to casual (final pay given and with only a week gap between) – do they already qualify for sick leave –
Explaining leave to an employee
Q: Hope you may be able to help me define/explain some questions to an employee. Scenario is: Long term employee has moved from 5 day working week to 2 day
Sick Leave entitlement
Q: A new employee do they become entitled to sick leave immediately or after 6 months. I am unclear if law passed on this. Reading the NZPPA 2022 I read
OWP calculation Method for monthly payrolls
Q: We are in the process of changing systems and one system calculations as per method A and the other as per method B. The employer has advised what monthly
Backpay associated with recent Court Decision to include Bonuses in Average Leave rate calcs
Q: If we pay an Anniversary Bonus in the current pay cycle, does this Bonus payment form part of the employees OWE as well as in the employee’s AWE? i.e.
Public holiday on termination
Q: Can you please help – I have someone leave on the 14th April and has 12 hours of entitled leave , which is 1.5 days or 0.3 of week
Getting Paid for Good Friday
Q: Hoping you can help, we have a payroll client who had a new employee start on 4th April working 5 days a week 9 hours per day. Should they
Sick on PH – Worked part of the day
Q: An employee was rostered to work on Easter Monday (otherwise working day) they worked 4.25 hours of an 8 hour shift then went home sick – is this employee
Regional anniversary holidays
Q: We have an employee who is usually based in Taranaki. A few days before the Taranaki Public Holiday he was deployed to work in Auckland. Should he have received
Question – alternative holiday paid out
Q: I would like to get your advice on whether alternative holiday paid out forms part of gross earnings? Annual holidays paid out is explicitly stated as not included in
Sick leave
Q: Would you be able to let us know if part time employees are entitled to sick leave proportionately as per their working hours. For example. A full time employee
Leave rules
Q: Can you please confirm for me the rules about an employer requiring employees to take leave. The situation is: A client has to close for up to 6 weeks
Casual Holiday Pay vs Permanent Employment
Q: We have identified a casual employee who is working as a permanent employee rather than a true casual. We are going to issue a permanent contract, but the business
Casual Holiday Pay vs Permanent Employment
Q: We have identified a casual employee who is working as a permanent employee rather than a true casual. We are going to issue a permanent contract, but the business
Sick Leave and Covid Leave Support Scheme
Q: Section 3 of the declaration for the leave support scheme only talks about paying staff their Ordinary wage. Some of my clients have claimed the leave support scheme for
Remedial payment
Q: We would just like to clarify that a remedial payment to an ex-employee is full and final and that if it is paid to a current employee it falls
Permanent employee picking up additional shifts under different contract (same company?)
Q: We have some employees who are employed as full time permanent salaried staff that wish to pick up some twilight shifts in a seasonal job. The job they will