This introductory 2-hour webinar will provide payroll practitioners with an overview of the principal calculations and statutory tests that will underpin leave processing under the new legislation.

Who Should Attend

Payroll practitioners, payroll managers, and anyone responsible for payroll compliance or preparing for the proposed Employment Leave Act.

Purpose

The Employment Leave Act introduces a substantially different framework for calculating, paying, deducting and recording statutory leave. Payroll practitioners will need to move away from many of the existing weeks-, days- and variable-earnings-based calculations under the Holidays Act 2003 to a predominantly hours-based system supported by new statutory formulas and tests.

The webinar will explain how annual and sick leave accrue in hours, how leave hours and part-days are determined, how the new otherwise-working-day tests operate, and how public-holiday and alternative-leave entitlements are established. It will also introduce the common leave hourly rate, the treatment of qualifying fixed allowances and the 12.5% Leave Compensation Payment applying to additional and casual hours.

Practical examples will demonstrate that payroll cannot correctly process leave by applying a calculation alone. It must first identify the employee’s working arrangement, classify their hours correctly, apply the relevant statutory test and determine the hours to which the calculation applies.

This introductory webinar is designed to build awareness and provide a practical foundation. It will not attempt to provide advanced calculation training or address every exception, transitional provision or industry-specific arrangement.

Key Topics

• Introducing the new calculation framework
• Standard, additional and casual hours
• Annual leave accrual calculation
• Sick leave accrual calculation
• The Leave Compensation Payment calculation
• Tests for determining when leave may be taken
• Calculating annual and sick leave taken in hours
• Calculating part-day bereavement and family violence leave
• The otherwise-working-day tests
• Determining relevant public-holiday hours
• Public-holiday payment tests and calculations
• Alternative leave calculation
• Introduction to the common leave hourly rate
• Salaried employee calculation
• Waged, piece-rate and commission employees
• Qualifying fixed allowances

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the principal new payroll calculations introduced by the Employment Leave Act;
2. Understand the purpose of the statutory tests that must be completed before leave is processed;

Practical Outcome

Under the Employment Leave Act, payroll will need to do more than apply a new formula. It must first:

1. Identify the employee’s working arrangement;
2. Classify the hours correctly;
3. Apply the relevant statutory test;
4. Determine the applicable hours;
5. Calculate the entitlement or payment; and
6. Record the result accurately.

This 2-hour introductory webinar will give payroll practitioners a practical foundation for understanding the calculations, tests and payroll information requirements that will underpin the new employment leave framework.

Webinar Details

Date: 17^th September 2026
Time: 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Cost

NZPPA Member: $150 + GST
NZPPA Non-member: $175 + GST
Group booking special: Receive 25% OFF from the second attendee onwards when booking two or more people. To arrange a group booking, email training@nzppa.co.nz.