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Mental health in the workplace

An employer’s issue Managing workplace health and safety has run the gamut from providing ergonomic chairs and PPE to ensuring appropriate evacuation pathways are clearly marked. Emerging trends from WorkSafe New Zealand, however, indicate that the mental wellbeing of staff should fall under an employer’s obligation to provide a ‘safe’ workplace. Under the Health and […]

Notifications of privacy breaches increases significantly

Check systems are in place Notifications for a privacy breach have increased nearly four-fold since the new Privacy Act 2019 came into force on 1 December 2020. In the period 1 December 2020 to 30 November 2021, 750 privacy breach notifications were received by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC). One-third of those cases […]

Postscript

New holidays legislation The complexities of calculating holiday pay and other leave provisions under the current Holidays Act 2003 should be a thing of the past when new legislation is expected to be introduced to Parliament mid-year. A government-appointed taskforce has made recommendations to simplify provisions and to provide a commonsense application in the workplace. […]

Contractors

A veritable minefield of employment law From a legal perspective, hiring contractors has always been tricky. The onus of correctly identifying who is an employee versus a contractor, and ensuring legal compliance, remains an employer’s responsibility. The financial consequences of misidentification can be significant for a business owner. With the rise of the ‘gig economy’, […]

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