Q: When an employee is being paid by ACC and topping up to 100% with sick leave what happens on a Public Holiday, should be pay them? A: You cannot be
Paytech Category: Parental leave & other types of leave
Work Days
Q: When the company pays weekly parental top-up payments to employees in addition to the IRD payments. Can we count the work days/week even though the employee is not working for
Sick leave on pay slips
Q: I have found this on NZ employment site. Please can you confirm that sick leave legally does not have to be on pay slips. Thank you for your help.
Unpaid Leave
Q: What is the right way to pay a full month on unpaid leave? We are on a monthly salary cycle. When an employee books unpaid leave, it is booked
Sick Leave Entitlement Query
Q: I would like to advise on Sick Leave entitlement. Employee will be entitled to 10 days of Sick leave after 6 months of service. A: 6 months then 12
LWOP & Sick leave entitlement
Q: We have a couple of employees who are on extended leave without pay and their annual entitlement to sick leave is due while they are away (for 1) and
Denying Paid Sick Leave
Q: We have an employee who took half a day off sick without notifying their manager or workplace (they don’t work on-site). They didn’t put through the sick leave request
Garden Leave
Q: If you are on 3 weeks of garden leave, is this paid out weekly and your final date of employment would be the end of those three weeks and
Extending annual leave entitlement on termination
Q: Employee’s last day at work is 15 March. They will be paid out the notice period of 4 weeks (paid in lieu) and they have 3 weeks entitled annual leave
Pooled SL
Q: Have you heard of an effective scheme where ‘lost’ sick leave (ie. that sick leave that effectively disappears if your balance is at the cap of 20 days, and then
Parental leave – Continuous employment query for redundancy payment
Q: Do primary care leave (26 weeks) and extended parental leave (up to 52 weeks) affect continuous service? We are looking into service years for redundancy calculation; the said employee
Cashing out of Alternate leave, Long Service Leave and Sick leave included in Gross earnings?
Q: Cashing out of other leave like: Alternate leave, Long Service Leave and Sick leave. Are they included in Gross earnings? A: Alternative and LSL yes, is the SL additional
Timing with returning from Parental leave
Q: Please help me understand, The Employee has returned this week from PL, after a short time on PL i.e. 8 months The employee is taking some Annual leave to
Parental leave question
Q: We have an employee who plans to start parental leave from 28th January. She’s on Annual leave from 20th December to 27th January. Her baby has arrived early on
Unpaid leave and Parental leave
Q: We have an employee who has used all her annual leave. Then HR put her on 2 weeks leave without pay before commencing Parental leave. Will this create an issue
Parental Leave Query
Q: We have had a Manager off on PL since January this year. Since June she has been working an average of 25.5 hrs. per month. She has just informed the
Parental Leave an changing hours of work
Q: We have a staff member who was the Manager of a department and has been away on Parental leave. She has returned this week but only on a part time
Question about leave accruals
Q: I just have a question for you, during my consulting work I have had a few New Zealand businesses. The one thing I find as the common issue is leave
Notice Period during Annual Leave
Q: An employee has annual leave pre-approved for two weeks starting in two weeks’ time, today they have handed in their resignation with the notice period of 4 weeks as per
Keeping In Touch Hours
Q: We have an unusual situation where we have an employee who worked for us part time and part time for another employer. She went on Parental Leave but had only