by Patrick | Mar 1, 2021 | News
[EMPLOYMENTNZ] MINIMUM WAGE IS INCREASING ON 1 APRIL. ARE YOU READY? As a business owner or manager, you need to be ready for the increase in minimum wage rates from Thursday, 1 April 2021. If you have not yet talked to your accountant, payroll provider or your...
by Patrick | Feb 22, 2021 | News
[IRD] PAYROLL GIVING The employer’s role As an employer you are responsible for: · deducting the requested donation amount from your employee’s salary or wage · calculating the correct tax credits for each payroll donation made · ...
by Patrick | Feb 22, 2021 | News
[EMPLOYMENTNZ] CAN EMPLOYERS MAKE EMPLOYEES TAKE LEAVE DURING ALERT LEVELS 3 AND 4? If workers are not able to come into their usual place of work, employers are encouraged to ask individual workers to work from home while the risk is addressed, and pay them normally....
by Patrick | Feb 22, 2021 | News
COVID-19 VACCINE: EMPLOYER OBLIGATIONS Recognising the critical role that our border workforce play in keeping us safe, you will have seen that the government has announced that the Ministry of Health will be rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine to border workers and...
by Patrick | Feb 16, 2021 | News
[WINZ] PAYING YOUR STAFF THE COVID-19 SHORT-TERM ABSENCE PAYMENT How to pay the COVID-19 Short-Term Absence Payment to your workers, and manage GST and tax around this. Paying wages to staff Where your employee has an entitlement to be paid as per their employment...