The Holidays Act 2003 is just plain dumb: it is a total mismatch with the reality of New Zealand workplaces and payroll. In a nutshell: Paying leave entitlements to an employee should be as easy as paying a wage or salary, but with multiple calculations and multiple situations to apply those calculations and variations to, […]
Month: February 2017
Important to know for NZ Payroll: ACC Earner levy 2017-18 and Schedular Payments Changes
ACC Earner levy 2017-18 and Schedular Payments Changes […]
Living wage rises, amid call to do away with minimum
A leading budget adviser says New Zealand should scrap the minimum wage because it encourages employers to pay staff less than they are worth. It comes as the New Zealand living wage is adjusted in line with movements in wages. It now sits at $20.20, to come into effect on July 1. The original living […]
Why should a payroll system be full of manual workarounds?
The short answer is it should not. In this post NZPPA would like to highlight an issue we are seeing in payroll that undermines its effectiveness in regard to payroll processing cost, accuracy of payroll data and the overall risk to the business. When you buy a payroll system you would expect that the system […]
MBIE’S HOLIDAY ACT RESOURCE MANUALS
NZPPA has spent over 18 months battling to get access to MBIE’s training and resource material on the Holidays Act 2003 (via a OIA complaint to the Ombudsman). It took a judge to get MBIE to provide this material as they used every delaying tactic to try and stop NZPPA to get access. NZPPA wants […]