In this OnDemand Holidays Act webinar 3 pack series attendees will be able to access webinars (over 6 hours) covering the full range of topics for the Holidays Act 2003.

Attendees will also get access to a PDF copy of the manual for each webinar providing a wealth of information for anyone running payroll needing to understand the current Holidays Act from a basic to advance level.

Holidays Act 101 webinar content:

• Determining gross earnings
• What payments are included/excluded from gross earnings holiday pay calculations.
• Determining a week for annual holidays
• What is counted as continuous employment?
• Issues with unpaid leave and what needs to be done for payroll
• Calculating annual holidays AWE/OWP and 8% (pay as you go).
• Applying annual leave calculations when employee take holidays at different times
• Rules around close-down periods
• Cashing up annual holidays
• Calculating Relevant Daily Pay & Average Daily Pay for sick, bereavement, alternative, family violence, public holidays.
• Determining an otherwise working day
• Rules for: Public, Sick, Bereavement, Alternative and family violence Leave
• Record Keeping and enforcement

Holidays Act 102 webinar content:

• Defining payments to be included in different periods of gross earnings including the day, week and 52 weeks.
• Criteria for what is and what is not a discretionary payment
• Changing the working week (by agreement) and the impact on annual holiday entitlement
• Converting hours, days, and weeks when the entitlement week changes by agreement
• Calculating leave in hours, days and weeks to still ensure compliance
• Understanding the divisor for different leave calculations
• Determining an otherwise working day when the employee works a variable work pattern (rotating roster)
• Creating spot checks for Holidays Act compliance
• Transferring public holiday’s part or whole & PHs that transfer to another day (extended examples).
• What employment agreement clauses are needed to support Holidays Act compliance and payroll best practice
• Total remuneration and how treated when calculating leave

Holidays Act 103 webinar content:

• Identifying your payroll issues with the Holidays Act:
  • Payment types (how payments have been assigned or not to gross earnings and the different calculations required under the act).
  • Issues with how calculations were run in the payroll system and different between what was done and what was required under the act.
  • Issues with defining a week (for different work patterns).
• Identifying what employee types have been effected by Holidays Act issues.
• Are the issues from configuration or base system issues.
• Making the decision to do remediation in house or using an external party.
• When to talk to your payroll system provider or outsourced payroll service provider.
• Accessing and formatting data for assessment.
• Creating an assessment model for different employee types.
• When to inform employees and other parties.
• Managing employee, Union and MBIE action.
• What obligations do you have to notify past employees?
• Managing payment of underpayments and how taxed.

3 pack OnDemand webinar cost:

• NZPPA member: $315 + GST
• NZPPA non-member: $415 + GST