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 be doing for the twilight shift is a totally different job to their permanent role.

We will pay the employees a lower rate — the applicable rate for the role.

Question is – what do we do with the gross earnings from this work in terms of liable gross for leave?

Ideally we would like to pay 8% of the gross from this seasonal job in each pay, rather than accrue it. We do not want to add this gross to the liable gross for the leave for the Perm role. Does that sound legitimate?

A: No they should just have a variation to agreement as they are still working for the same employer just doing two different roles at different rates.  All goes into the  one gross as you report to IRD as such.

This won’t change the week but will increase the rate after the season for leave and will effect AWE for 52 weeks but overall should work out the same as paying 8% pay as you go.