Purpose

The Holidays Act, with its complex calculations and lack of clear terms, tests or tools, has led to hundreds of millions of dollars (and counting) of underpayments to employees. This urgent issue underscores the crucial need for this webinar.

The Holidays Act, with its complex calculations and lack of clear guidance, has already resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in underpayments to employees—a number that continues to grow. This critical issue highlights the immediate need for our upcoming webinar.

This essential webinar is designed to equip payroll practitioners with the knowledge to proactively identify and prevent potential compliance issues related to the Holidays Act. By attending, you’ll gain invaluable insights that could save your organization from costly mistakes. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve. (Note: A follow-up webinar will focus on resolving these issues.)

The webinar will comprehensively cover a wide range of areas that typically involve Holidays Act compliance issues. These topics are based on insights from numerous NZPPA audits and the common questions received by NZPPA.

Attendees will be asked to submit any questions they want to be covered (in relation to the webinar content) prior to the event. Q&A will also be available during the webinar (time permitting). Attendees will also be able to ask any follow-up questions after this webinar (via email).

• This is a recorded webinar, and attendees will be provided a link to the recorded webinar after the webinar session.

What will be covered?

This special webinar can aid payroll by helping quantify known issues or even reassuring that payroll complies with the Holidays Act.

The webinar will cover ten compliance check areas, each topic area based on The webinar will cover ten areas where compliance issues compliance

Ten Holidays Act Essential Compliance Checks will cover:

1. Employment agreements (what needs to be included to aid compliance with the Holidays Act)
2. Defining gross earnings (what is included and excluded) for the different periods of gross earnings used in Holidays Act calculations
3. Determining employee annual holiday entitlement (for different employee work patterns)
4. Annual leave calculations (AWE, OWP and 8%)
5. Defining an otherwise working day
6. FBAPS leave defining entitlement
7. FBAPS calculations (RDP & ADP)
8. Public Holidays and Alternative Holidays
9. Labour Inspectorate (Red Flag Areas)
10. Initial checks of the payroll system and questions to ask of your payroll provider.

Date:

• 19 September 2024 (1 pm to 4 pm)

*25% off additional attendees from the second attendee, email: [email protected]