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New Zealand Holidays Act

Summary

The current New Zealand Holidays Act (2003, Number 129) came into effect on 01 April 2004.

Employers must ensure their payroll set-up is compliant with the current Act.

To do this you must identify the total number of employment agreement/contract variations your organisation has.

Processes should be set-up to regularly review your set-up with your current employment agreements/contracts to ensure your PayGlobal set-up will continue to help you be compliant.

For Annual Leave and F.B.A.P.S PayGlobal caters for:

  • Paying and maintaining balances in hours
  • Paying and maintaining balances in days
  • Paying in hours but maintaining balances in days
  • Paying in days but maintaining balances in hours

For Annual Leave in Weeks, PayGlobal caters for:

  • Paying in hours and maintaining balances in weeks ONLY!

The current AL in Weeks functionality has only been designed to suit customers with employees that have fixed/static work patterns as there's a heavy reliance on profiled hours AND also only suits those who only get the stock-standard 4 weeks AL per year - no using our Extra Week or our Services tabs. Basically it's not designed or suitable yet for customers that use the T&A or Rostering Modules.... only Payroll module users.

Legacy systems

If your company has recently changed from a non-PayGlobal software system to PayGlobal you need to bring in at least 12 months historical data. If you do not do this you will be unable to accurately calculate an employee's Average Earnings (52 week rule).

Further Information

To understand how to meet your obligations as an employer under the New Zealand Holidays Act 2003,we recommend reading the following MBIE guidance documents.

In This Section

Public Holidays On Termination (NZ)

Public Holiday Worked - Earnings in ADP Calculations (NZ)

Alternative Holidays (NZ)

Leave Without Pay (LWOP)