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HIANZ LOOKS TO “RESPOND, RETHINK, RECOVER” IN ROTO-VEGAS
Changes to Holidays Act welcome
LATE LAST MONTH, employers
welcomed the news that the Government had accepted all the Holidays Act Taskforce’s recommended changes.
Admitting that employers have found the Holidays Act 2003’s legislative requirements “hard to administer, which has meant costly fixes and employees missing out on their entitlements”, the Government says key changes will include:
• Entitlingeligibleemployeesto bereavement leave and family violence leave from their first day of employment.
• Givingeligibleemployeesoneday’s sick leave from their first day of employment, with an additional day given per month until the minimum entitlement is reached.
• Extendingbereavementleaveto include more family members, including cultural family groups and more modern family structures.
• Removingthecurrentparentalleave “override” so employees returning
to work following parental leave will be paid at their full rate for annual holidays.
• Requiringpayslips,soemployeesknow what their used and remaining leave entitlements are, and how these were calculated.
With a Holidays Act 2003 review alreadywellunderway,backin2019both NZ Police and Bunnings NZ had incorrect holiday payments widely reported.
The legislation is expected to be introducedearlynextyear.
www.employment.govt.nz
WITH THE THEME “Respond, Rethink, Recover”,
HIANZ members and suppliers will gather in Rotorua over 11-12 August this year.
With the 2020 Conference
in Queenstown having been cancelled, the organisation’s
2021 Conference, Trade Show
and Hire Excellence Awards
Dinner will all be held at the Rotorua Energy Events Centre.
Positioned on the edge of Lake Rotorua, the Energy Events Centre is located behind the Government Gardens but is close to the centre of town.
Speakers will include Wiremu and Marsella Edmonds, who will talk to workplace culture, health, safety & wellbeing, well-known Kiwi actor, Antonia Prebble, Hannah McQueen,
who’s described as “a financial force of nature”, and airline pilot, Everest mountaineer, adventurer and extreme marathon competitor Mike Allsop.
To cap off the events, the 2021 Hire Excellence Awards Dinner, sponsored by Youngman Richardson will be hosted
by the excellent Madeleine Sami, one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed character actors.
www.hianz.net.nz/2021-conference/
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