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Work and jobs

This page contains different parts of laws about Work and jobs.

Related Plain Language Law

Weights and Measures Act 1987

What inspectors need to know about their job certificates

27: Certificates of appointment

Weights and Measures Act 1987

How long accreditation lasts and how to renew it

30C: Duration and renewal of accreditation

Weights and Measures Act 1987

When and how the government can take away someone's special permission to do certain jobs

30D: Revocation of accreditation

Weights and Measures Act 1987

Accredited people are not government employees

30J: Application of certain Acts to accredited persons

Conservation Act 1987

Being a good employer is important

26G: Employment principles

Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008

Financial advisers can lose their registration if they don't work with a provider for a long time

22D: Financial adviser may be deregistered if not engaged by provider for extended period

Immigration Act 2009

Permanent resident visa holders can live, work, and study in New Zealand indefinitely

73: Currency and nature of permanent resident visa

Immigration Act 2009

Immigration officers can check employer records to ensure visa compliance

277: Powers of entry and inspection relating to records of employers

Immigration Act 2009

Immigration can tell employers if someone can legally work for them

304: Disclosure of information to employers

Immigration Act 2009

Employers can be penalised for knowingly allowing unauthorised work

350: Offences by employers

Immigration Act 2009

Unfair treatment of workers without proper work rights in New Zealand

351: Exploitation of unlawful employees and temporary workers

Immigration Act 2009

Employers face fines or imprisonment for hiring workers without proper permission

357: Penalties: employers

Immigration Act 2009

Immigration officers can request personal details when considering fines for craft or employment offences

361: Immigration officer may require information

Immigration Act 2009

Employers' responsibilities and legal protections when hiring non-New Zealand workers

456: Offences by employers

Immigration Act 2009

New rules for sharing work visa information with employers

477: New section 141ABA inserted

Immigration Act 2009

Immigration officers can check workplaces to ensure workers and employers follow visa rules

277A: Powers of entry and search for employees on employers’ premises

Immigration Act 2009

Immigration officers can request and review employment documents to check visa compliance

275A: Power to access employment documents

Immigration Act 2009

Rules and fines for employers hiring workers from overseas

359A: Employment infringement offence

Immigration Act 2009

Limits on fines for breaking certain immigration rules

364A: Maximum fees for infringement offences

Immigration Act 2009

Fines for breaking employment rules when hiring workers

364B: Infringement fine for prescribed employment infringement offences

Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Your job is safe if you have to leave work to help in an emergency.

112: Absence on duty not to affect employment rights

Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

How to give important papers to people or groups under the law

114: Service of documents

Local Government Act 2002

The council boss who runs things and helps make decisions

42: Chief executive

Local Government Act 2002

More rules for local government activities and roles

48: Further provisions of Schedule 7

Local Government Act 2002

Council-controlled groups should follow their goals, treat workers well, and help the community

59: Principal objective of council-controlled organisation

Local Government Act 2002

The law says how someone who was a council's top boss keeps their job when new rules start

296: Chief executive

Local Government Act 2002

People who worked for the Local Government Commission can keep their jobs under the new law

297: Members of Commission

Local Government Act 2002

Rules to protect jobs in local government

305: Local Authorities (Employment Protection) Act 1963

Local Government Act 2002

Rules for paying elected local government members remain valid during law changes

312: Savings and validation in respect of remuneration, allowances, and expenses of elected members

Local Government Act 2002

Payment and costs for people chosen by the Minister to help with government work

258V: Remuneration and expenses of Ministerial appointees

Local Government Act 2002

The mayor leads the city and makes important decisions

41A: Role and powers of mayors

Civil Aviation Act 1990

You might need special papers to do things in flying

7: Requirement for aviation document

Civil Aviation Act 1990

Rules for deciding if someone can work in aviation

10: Criteria for fit and proper person test

Civil Aviation Act 1990

Rules for getting a doctor's check before you can fly a plane

27D: Medical examination, report, and disclosure

Civil Aviation Act 1990

You can get in trouble for doing aviation work without the right papers

46: Acting without necessary aviation document

Income Tax Act 2007

Trustees act on behalf of companies in employee share schemes

CE 6: Trusts are nominees

Income Tax Act 2007

What employee share schemes are and how they work

CE 7: Meaning of employee share scheme

Income Tax Act 2007

Tax-free pay for military service overseas

CW 24: Deferred military pay for active service

Income Tax Act 2007

Which compensation payments are not taxed as income

CW 34: Compensation payments

Income Tax Act 2007

Tax exemption for employer-managed funeral expense funds

CW 45: Funeral trusts

Income Tax Act 2007

Employer-provided health and safety benefits that aren't taxed

CX 24: Benefits related to health or safety

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules for when entertainment from your employer is considered a fringe benefit

CX 29: Entertainment

Income Tax Act 2007

Defining what counts as an emergency work call from home

CX 34: Meaning of emergency call

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules for certain insurance payments made before July 2000

CZ 15: Accident insurance contracts before 1 July 2000

Income Tax Act 2007

What happens if you break a promise not to work for someone else or share information

DB 48: Restrictive covenant breached

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules for claiming unpaid wages as a tax deduction

DB 51: Adjustment for deferred payment of employment income

Income Tax Act 2007

Explaining when businesses can claim deductions for retirement and redundancy payments

DC 1: Lump sum payments on retirement

Income Tax Act 2007

Tax deductions for pensions paid to former employees who retired or were made redundant

DC 2: Pension payments to former employees

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules for paying employees when connected companies change employers

DC 11: Transfers of employment income obligations to associates

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules for late payment of employee wages and salaries

EA 4: Deferred payment of employment income

Income Tax Act 2007

Deducting ACC payments from your income

EF 3: Accident compensation levies and premiums

Income Tax Act 2007

Certain employee share schemes exempt from Foreign Investment Fund rules

EX 38: Exemptions for employee share schemes

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules for fair pay when employing relatives in a business

GB 23: Excessive remuneration to relatives

Income Tax Act 2007

Explaining terms for rules about associated persons and work arrangements

GB 28: Interpretation of terms used in section GB 27

Income Tax Act 2007

Employers' responsibilities for income tax of non-New Zealand employees

HD 27: Employers

Income Tax Act 2007

You must not receive certain benefits to qualify for the in-work tax credit

MD 8: Fourth requirement: person not receiving benefit

Income Tax Act 2007

Employer's responsibilities for employment-related taxes

RA 5: Tax obligations for employment-related taxes

Income Tax Act 2007

How employers calculate the value of loans given to employees

RD 34: Employment-related loans: value using prescribed interest rates

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules for goods sold to employees at a discount

RD 42: Goods at staff discount

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules for staff discounts on goods already on sale to the public

RD 43: Goods on special with staff discount

Income Tax Act 2007

Deciding which workers get extra job perks

Income Tax Act 2007

Tracking certain job perks for tax purposes

RD 47: Attribution of certain fringe benefits

Income Tax Act 2007

How PAYE intermediaries manage trust accounts for employee pay and tax

RP 6: Operation of PAYE intermediaries’ trust accounts

Income Tax Act 2007

Paying employee super contributions to a PAYE intermediary's trust account

RP 11: Employer's superannuation cash contributions

Income Tax Act 2007

When you can pay employees directly instead of using a PAYE intermediary

RP 12: When payments made directly to employees

Income Tax Act 2007

Tax rules for people who employ themselves as domestic workers

MK 16: Private domestic workers

Income Tax Act 2007

Tax-free meals and allowances for some workers

CW 17C: Payments for overtime meals and certain other allowances

Income Tax Act 2007

How payroll donations work and when you can make them

LD 8: Meaning and ranking of payroll donation

Income Tax Act 2007

Explaining how to apply new rules for work-related accommodation and meal expenses from 2011 to 2015

CZ 30: Transitional provision: application of certain accommodation provisions

Income Tax Act 2007

Defence Force accommodation value rules for members

CE 1D: Exception: accommodation provided by Defence Force

Income Tax Act 2007

Tax-free employer benefits for North Island flood victims

CZ 24B: Employee benefits for North Island flooding events relief: not fringe benefits

Income Tax Act 2007

How tax works for people working across different countries

CE 1F: Treatment of amounts derived by cross-border employees

Income Tax Act 2007

Tax rules for employer-provided bikes, scooters, and vehicle-share services for commuting

CX 19D: Certain self-powered and low-powered vehicles and vehicle-share services

Income Tax Act 2007

Cross-border employees' tax duties for fringe benefits received in New Zealand

RD 62B: Obligations of cross-border employees when FBT liability not paid

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules for tax deductions in employee share schemes

DV 27: Employee share schemes

Income Tax Act 2007

Rules to prevent unfair tax advantages in employee share schemes

GB 49B: Employee share schemes

Resource Management Act 1991

Getting a special badge to show you are qualified for a job

39A: Accreditation

Child Support Act 1991

It's against the law for employers to treat workers badly because of child support payments

171: Offence to prejudice employees because of financial support liability

Electricity Industry Act 2010

Rules for employees moving from the Electricity Commission to the Authority

137: Transferred employees

Electricity Industry Act 2010

Protection of retirement money for former Electricity Commission workers

138: Government Superannuation Fund

Electricity Act 1992

Important information before the main rules

Electricity Act 1992

This part used to explain why the law was made, but it's no longer in the law

62A: Purpose of this Part

Electricity Act 1992

The rule about checking if people follow electricity rules has been removed

62M: Commission must monitor compliance

Electricity Act 1992

The Commission can use information it gets from rules or regulations.

Electricity Act 1992

Keeping everyone safe and sound with electricity rules

Electricity Act 1992

This provision names the law and explains when it starts

1: Short Title and commencement

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for understanding and applying the law

Electricity Act 1992

Words and their meanings in the Electricity Act

2: Interpretation

Electricity Act 1992

This law applies to everyone, including the government

3: Act to bind the Crown

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for keeping people safe around electricity and what to do when accidents happen

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for people who work with electricity

Electricity Act 1992

The Minister can name electricity makers as special operators

4A: Declaration of electricity generators as electricity operators

Electricity Act 1992

What WorkSafe and the Secretary can do and are responsible for

Electricity Act 1992

WorkSafe makes sure electricity is safe and people follow the rules

5: Functions of WorkSafe

Electricity Act 1992

WorkSafe can check electrical things to make sure they're safe

6: Inspection of works, etc

Electricity Act 1992

Inspector writes report and gives copies to everyone who needs it

7: Report to be compiled on inspection

Electricity Act 1992

WorkSafe can check and fix dangerous electrical things to keep you safe

8: Special powers of WorkSafe

Electricity Act 1992

How to challenge WorkSafe's decisions about electricity rules

9: Objections to WorkSafe's requirements

Electricity Act 1992

Notices or requirements are paused if you object, with some exceptions

10: Effect of notice or requirement pending hearing

Electricity Act 1992

How a hearing works when someone disagrees with an electricity notice

11: Procedure on hearing of objection

Electricity Act 1992

WorkSafe can make you follow safety rules right away if it's dangerous

13: WorkSafe may require immediate compliance

Electricity Act 1992

Experts who help decide if you disagree with WorkSafe

15: Assessors

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for telling people about electrical accidents

16: Notification of accidents

Electricity Act 1992

Sharing information about electricity accidents

16A: Transfer of accident information

Electricity Act 1992

Don't touch the accident scene without permission

17: Interference with scene of accident

Electricity Act 1992

WorkSafe can investigate accidents to find out what happened

18: Inquiries into accidents

Electricity Act 1992

You must help WorkSafe do their job and check things

19: Assistance to WorkSafe

Electricity Act 1992

You can't stop WorkSafe from doing their job

20: Obstructing WorkSafe

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for people who work with electricity and how they can use or fix power lines on different lands

Electricity Act 1992

You can go onto land to check or fix electrical equipment that's already there

23: Rights of entry in respect of existing works

Electricity Act 1992

Power line owners must tell landowners before they come to check their equipment

23B: Line owner must give notice of intention to inspect or operate existing works

Electricity Act 1992

Entering someone's property without notice during electrical emergencies

23C: Notice in emergencies

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for electricity companies working on roads

24: Construction or maintenance of works on roads

Electricity Act 1992

Electricity companies must tell others before they work on roads

25: Notice to be given before work undertaken

Electricity Act 1992

Breaking electricity rules can lead to fines and compensation payments

26: Offence

Electricity Act 1992

You can challenge rules set for your electricity work if you think they're unfair

27: Appeals in relation to conditions imposed

Electricity Act 1992

How the court decides appeals about electricity decisions

28: Determination of appeals

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for electricity companies working on level crossings

31: Rights of entry in respect of level crossings

Electricity Act 1992

Local authorities can ask you to move electrical works on roads

32: Local authority, etc, may require works to be moved

Electricity Act 1992

Who pays for electrical work required by law

33: Cost of work required under section 32

Electricity Act 1992

Parts of this law are more important than a road law from 1989

34: Government Roading Powers Act 1989 not to apply

Electricity Act 1992

Private land owners can move electrical works on their property if they follow certain rules

35: Owners and occupiers of private land may move works

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for making and sharing safety guides about electricity

Electricity Act 1992

WorkSafe makes rules to keep people safe around electricity

36: Issue of electrical code of practice

Electricity Act 1992

Electrical codes can include official standards

37: Code may incorporate official standards by reference

Electricity Act 1992

Minister must agree to electrical rules after asking people what they think

38: Code to be approved by Minister

Electricity Act 1992

WorkSafe makes sure everyone can see or buy the electrical safety rules

39: Availability of codes

Electricity Act 1992

WorkSafe can quickly change electrical safety rules in emergencies

40: Emergency amendment of code

Electricity Act 1992

How to refer to the rules for safe electrical work

41: Citation of code

Electricity Act 1992

How to prove an electrical code of practice is real in court

42: Proof of code

Electricity Act 1992

Old electrical rules are still used under the new law

43: Codes promulgated under Electricity Act 1968

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for the group that helps bring electricity to country areas

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for keeping electricity safe and fair for everyone

Electricity Act 1992

Getting paid if electrical work hurts your land

57: Compensation for damage

Electricity Act 1992

Telling WorkSafe about new electrical projects

59: Returns relating to construction of works, etc

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for giving out safe and good electricity

60: Standards for electricity supply

Electricity Act 1992

Rules to keep people safe when using electricity

61: Safety requirements

Electricity Act 1992

This rule about keeping the power on doesn't exist anymore

62: Continuance of supply

Electricity Act 1992

This part of the law was removed in 1994 and doesn't apply anymore

73: Expiry of this Part

Electricity Act 1992

Rules about who can do electrical work and when special permission is needed

Electricity Act 1992

Rules about who can do special electrical work or help with it

74: Restrictions on doing or assisting with prescribed electrical work

Electricity Act 1992

The Board can give special permission to skip some rules for electrical work

75: Board may exempt person or class of persons from section 74

Electricity Act 1992

You can do some electrical work if someone qualified watches over you

76: Exemption for work done under supervision

Electricity Act 1992

Trainees can do some electrical work while learning to be an electrician

77: Exemption for trainees

Electricity Act 1992

Board can give special certificates for specific purposes

78: Board may issue limited certificate for purposes of section 77

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for doing your own electrical wiring at home

79: Exemption for domestic electrical wiring work

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for fixing your own home appliances safely

80: Exemption for maintenance of domestic appliances

Electricity Act 1992

The board can take away your special permission after hearing your side

81: Board may cancel application of exemption to any person

Electricity Act 1992

Checking and approving electrical work before it's used

82: Testing, certification, and inspection

Electricity Act 1992

Inspectors can enter buildings to check electrical work for safety

83: Power of entry

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for becoming an electrician and keeping your work permit

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for dealing with complaints about people who work with electricity

Electricity Act 1992

Employer licences let workers do special electrical jobs

117: Prescribed electrical work may be done under employer licence

Electricity Act 1992

How long an employer's electricity licence lasts

118: Duration of employer licence

Electricity Act 1992

How to renew your employer licence

119: Renewal of employer licence

Electricity Act 1992

How the Board can change or take away a company's permission to do electrical work

120: Cancellation, suspension, and other actions in relation to employer licences

Electricity Act 1992

Board listens to employer's side before making decisions

121: Board must give employer licence holder reasonable opportunity to be heard

Electricity Act 1992

Rules about paying fines and following orders when the Board takes action against you

122: Miscellaneous provisions concerning actions under section 120

Electricity Act 1992

The Board can check workplaces to make sure electrical work is safe and follows the rules

123: Powers of inspection

Electricity Act 1992

The Board keeps a list of all electrical workers

124: Register of electrical workers

Electricity Act 1992

Registrar writes down important information about electrical workers and companies

125: Registrar must enter matters in register

Electricity Act 1992

The register helps people find and check information about electricians and electrical workers

126: Purpose of register

Electricity Act 1992

How the electrical workers register is kept and accessed

127: Form of register

Electricity Act 1992

What important information about electrical workers is kept in a special list?

128: Matters to be contained in register

Electricity Act 1992

Old electrical worker records are saved but don't give work rights

129: Historical registration and licence information and documentation to be included in register

Electricity Act 1992

Let the Registrar know if you move house within 3 months

130: Duty to notify change of address

Electricity Act 1992

Tell the Registrar if you change your name

131: Duty to notify change of name

Electricity Act 1992

Checking and updating the list of people with electrical licenses

132: Revision of register

Electricity Act 1992

Getting your electrician's registration or licence back after it was cancelled

133: Restoration of registration or licence

Electricity Act 1992

Board can ask Registrar to write down important changes about electrical workers

134: Board may direct Registrar to record cancellation, suspension, or order

Electricity Act 1992

The Registrar can update or fix information in the register

135: Alterations to register

Electricity Act 1992

The public can see and get copies of the list of electrical workers and employers

136: Register to be public

Electricity Act 1992

Keeping some information about electrical workers private

137: Restricting public access to information and documents on register

Electricity Act 1992

You can look at the list of electrical workers if you follow the rules

138: Search of register

Electricity Act 1992

Rules for disagreeing with decisions and asking for another look

Electricity Act 1992

Who this part of the law is for and when it matters

142: Persons to whom this Part applies

Electricity Act 1992

Things electrical workers can get in trouble for

143: Disciplinary offence

Electricity Act 1992

The Secretary chooses someone to check out complaints

145: Secretary must appoint investigator

Electricity Act 1992

Investigators can check electrical work and ask questions to make sure it's safe

147: Investigator's powers

Electricity Act 1992

How the Electrical Workers Registration Board is set up and what it does

Building Act 2004

Licensing building practitioners helps check and record their skills, and allows them to do or watch over special building jobs.

282A: Purposes of licensing building practitioners

Building Act 2004

The boss can make important decisions

Building Act 2004

Only special workers with special licenses can do or watch over certain types of building work.

84: Licensed building practitioner must carry out or supervise restricted building work

Building Act 2004

You can get in trouble if you do special building work without the right licence or supervision.

85: Offences relating to carrying out or supervising restricted building work

Building Act 2004

It's against the law to hire someone who isn't properly licensed to do or oversee special building jobs.

86: Offence to engage another person to carry out or supervise restricted building work if person is not licensed building practitioner

Building Act 2004

Only authorised people can do building consent jobs or they might get a big fine.

199: Offence to perform functions of building consent authority if not authorised

Building Act 2004

The boss must give a special card to workers who can go into buildings for their job.

206: Chief executive must supply warrant

Building Act 2004

How to challenge the boss's choices

Building Act 2004

Different types of building workers that need special permission to do their job

Building Act 2004

The steps to get a license for working on buildings

Building Act 2004

This explains what you need to do to get a special building worker card.

286: Entitlement to be licensed

Building Act 2004

The person in charge decides if you can become a licensed builder and tells you what happens next.

288: Registrar to license applicant or decline application

Building Act 2004

Rules about who can get permission to work as a builder

Building Act 2004

Some jobs get building licenses without needing to apply

Building Act 2004

People with certain jobs can automatically get a licence without applying or paying fees.

291: Automatic licensing of people registered under other enactments

Building Act 2004

Keeping a builder's permission to work

Building Act 2004

People who build things must keep following the rules to stay allowed to work.

292: Licensed building practitioner must meet applicable minimum standards for licensing to continue

Building Act 2004

If a builder doesn't meet the rules, their licence can be taken away or cancelled.

293: Consequences of failure to meet applicable minimum standards for licensing

Building Act 2004

Rules about taking away or stopping a builder's permission to work

Building Act 2004

The Registrar must remove someone's name from the list when their permission to do something is taken away.

294: Cancellation of licensing

Building Act 2004

When someone doesn't follow the rules, the government can stop them from working in their job for a while.

295: Mandatory licensing suspension

Building Act 2004

A builder can ask to pause their work permit for a while and then ask to start it up again later.

296: Voluntary licensing suspension

Building Act 2004

The register helps people find and learn about licensed building workers, and assists officials with their duties.

299: Purpose of register

Building Act 2004

You must tell the Registrar if anything changes about you or your work

302: Obligation to notify Registrar of change in circumstances

Building Act 2004

Every year, the person in charge checks if builders want to keep their special work permission and if their information is correct.

303: Registrar must contact licensed building practitioners on annual basis

Building Act 2004

The Registrar can fix mistakes or update information in the list of licensed building workers.

304: Alterations to register

Building Act 2004

How to look for information about building workers

Building Act 2004

The Registrar's signed paper is trusted as true proof about building workers, unless someone can show it's wrong.

313: Certificate of Registrar to be conclusive evidence

Building Act 2004

Reasons why builders can get in trouble with the law for doing bad or wrong things when building

317: Grounds for discipline of licensed building practitioners

Building Act 2004

The Board can punish someone who breaks the rules by taking away their licence, stopping them from working, or making them pay money.

318: Disciplinary penalties

Building Act 2004

If you don't pay your fines on time, you might lose your license or have it taken away for a while.

319: Non-payment of fines or costs

Building Act 2004

Rules about paying people who come to talk at special meetings about nurses and midwives

325: Witnesses' fees, allowances, and expenses

Building Act 2004

The Board can still take action against someone even if they are no longer a licensed builder.

328: Enforcement of actions

Building Act 2004

You can challenge decisions made about building workers

Building Act 2004

You can ask someone to check decisions about your building license if you think they're not fair.

330: Right of appeal

Building Act 2004

Setting up a group to oversee building workers

Building Act 2004

The Board oversees and manages rules, complaints, appeals, and reviews for licensed building practitioners.

343: Board's functions

Building Act 2004

Rules for choosing people to be on a special group that helps make decisions

345: Criteria for appointment

Building Act 2004

Rules that say what builders need to know and do to get and keep their special work permits

353: Rules relating to licensed building practitioners

Building Act 2004

When someone breaks the law while working for you, you might get in trouble too.

386: Liability of principal for acts of agents

Building Act 2004

You don't get paid if you lose your job

Building Act 2004

The government doesn't have to pay people who lose their jobs because of changes to an old law.

417: No compensation for loss of office

Building Act 2004

Workers don't get extra money if their job ends when the Authority closes and they get a similar or new job at the Ministry.

421: Restriction of compensation for technical redundancy

Building Act 2004

Explaining what counts as having an interest in a building or land for legal purposes

90C: Meaning of relevant interest

Building Act 2004

Rules about how builders should behave properly at work can be made by important people in the government.

314A: Code of ethics for licensed building practitioners

Building Act 2004

What an independently qualified person must do to honestly check and maintain building systems

108A: Duties of independently qualified person

Building Act 2004

The boss can share important information about building problems with groups that look after building workers.

207O: Sharing evidence or information with occupational bodies

Building Act 2004

The boss checks if someone did something wrong and decides what to do next

272ZE: Investigation following urgent suspension

Student Loan Scheme Act 2011

It's against the law for bosses to be mean to workers because of student loans

163: Offence to prejudice employees because of student loan repayment liability

Companies Act 1993

Directors can help employees when a company reduces or stops business

132: Exercise of powers in relation to employees

Companies Act 1993

How an administrator's appointment affects employees' jobs and wages

239Y: Effect on employees

Financial Markets Authority Act 2011

Rules for employees moving from the Securities Commission to the Financial Markets Authority

74: Transfer of employees

Crimes Act 1961

Employers must give young workers food, clothes, and a place to stay, or they could go to jail.

153: Duty of employers to provide necessaries

Crimes Act 1961

Not paying workers the money you owe them is a crime, even if they work from home.

220AA: Theft by employer

Building Societies Act 1965

Rules for employees when a building society becomes a company

113K: Employees

Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Things the Registrar checks when deciding if you can be an immigration adviser

17: Other matters relevant to fitness for licensing

Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

How to get a licence to work as an immigration adviser

19: Granting of licence

Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

How long your immigration adviser licence lasts

22: Duration of licence

Equal Pay Act 1972

Fair Pay for Everyone Regardless of Sex

Equal Pay Act 1972

A law from 1972 to ensure people get paid fairly, called the Equal Pay Act 1972.

1: Short Title

Equal Pay Act 1972

What words mean in the Equal Pay Act 1972

2: Interpretation

Equal Pay Act 1972

Treating workers unfairly because of their sex is against the law

2A: Unlawful discrimination

Equal Pay Act 1972

How to compare men's and women's pay for the same work

3: Criteria to be applied

Equal Pay Act 1972

How to decide if someone's pay is fair and equal

4: Determination of equal pay

Equal Pay Act 1972

Temporary pay rises that are no longer part of the law

5: Interim increases

Equal Pay Act 1972

Equal pay rules in work contracts are now the same for everyone.

6: Implementation of equal pay in awards

Equal Pay Act 1972

Making equal pay rules work in other laws and agreements

7: Implementation of equal pay in other instruments

Equal Pay Act 1972

Creating new job categories for fair pay

8: New classification of work

Equal Pay Act 1972

Courts can set rules to help people get paid fairly at work

9: Court may state principles for implementation of equal pay

Equal Pay Act 1972

Checking employment agreements are fair and provide equal pay

10: Approval by court or Employment Relations Authority of employment agreements or proposed employment agreements

Equal Pay Act 1972

Court can give a partial decision on equal pay claims, but this rule is no longer in use.

11: Court may make partial award

Equal Pay Act 1972

The Employment Relations Authority's extra powers to help with equal pay decisions and employment agreements.

12: Further powers of Employment Relations Authority

Equal Pay Act 1972

Getting the money you're owed if you're not paid equally

13: Recovery of remuneration based on equal pay

Equal Pay Act 1972

How the Employment Relations Authority handles fair pay claims

14: Procedure and jurisdiction of Employment Relations Authority

Equal Pay Act 1972

Your boss can't treat you unfairly if you make a claim for equal pay.

15: Claimant employee must not be treated adversely

Equal Pay Act 1972

What inspectors can do, according to the old law

16: Powers of Inspectors

Equal Pay Act 1972

What records employers must keep about their employees

17: Records to be kept by employers

Equal Pay Act 1972

Telling female employees about pay increases

17A: Advice of increments of pay and other increases in pay to be given to female employees

Equal Pay Act 1972

Breaking pay rules can cost you up to $10,000 or $20,000

18: Penalty for non-compliance

Equal Pay Act 1972

Rules made by the Governor-General to help the Equal Pay Act work

19: Regulations

Equal Pay Act 1972

The Department of Labour looks after the Equal Pay Act 1972 law.

20: Act to be administered in Department of Labour

Equal Pay Act 1972

When you can make a claim for fair pay

13DA: Eligibility of pay equity claim to be raised

Equal Pay Act 1972

Employers must decide on pay equity claims within 60 working days

13PA: Time limit for employer’s decisions about pay equity claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Your employer decides if your pay equity claim is valid and meets the rules.

13PB: Employer’s decision about whether claim meets requirements of section 13E

Equal Pay Act 1972

What happens if your employer says there's no one to compare your pay to?

13ZEA: Employer decides no appropriate comparators available

Equal Pay Act 1972

Your new boss makes a decision about the work that is part of your claim.

Equal Pay Act 1972

Changing your mind about employees doing similar work

13ZEB: New decision about same or substantially similar work

Equal Pay Act 1972

When your pay claim doesn't meet the rules, it can't go ahead

13ZZAA: Decision that claim does not meet section 13E requirements

Equal Pay Act 1972

When a court or authority decides a pay claim is not worth pursuing, it stops the claim from going further.

13ZZAB: Decision that claim does not have merit

Equal Pay Act 1972

When the court decides there's no one similar to compare your pay to

13ZZAC: Decision that no appropriate comparators are available

Equal Pay Act 1972

What happens next with a pay claim when a decision is made about the work employees do

13ZZAD: Later decision on work performed by employees covered by claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Basic rules

Equal Pay Act 1972

Fair Pay Rules

Equal Pay Act 1972

Equal Pay Rules

Equal Pay Act 1972

Fair Pay Rules

Equal Pay Act 1972

Basic Rules

Equal Pay Act 1972

Special rules to help change to the Equal Pay Act 1972

2AAA: Transitional, savings, and related provisions

Equal Pay Act 1972

Everyone doing the same job must get paid the same, no matter if they are a man or a woman.

2AAC: Differentiation in rates of remuneration prohibited

Equal Pay Act 1972

Picking one way to solve a workplace problem

2B: Choice of proceedings

Equal Pay Act 1972

When this part of the law does not apply to your pay claim

8A: Application of this Part

Equal Pay Act 1972

This law helps fix unfair pay for jobs mostly done by women.

13A: Purpose

Equal Pay Act 1972

Rules about notices, penalties, and how the law is enforced

Equal Pay Act 1972

What to do if someone doesn't follow the Equal Pay Act: taking action for a penalty

18A: Proceedings by Labour Inspector or employee concerned for penalty

Equal Pay Act 1972

Special rules for equal pay claims that were already started or settled when the law changed

Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions

Equal Pay Act 1972

What to expect if someone makes a pay equity claim about your job

Schedule 2: Content of notice to affected employees of pay equity claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

The government must follow this law too

2AAB: Act binds the Crown

Equal Pay Act 1972

What words mean in the Equal Pay Act

13B: Interpretation

Equal Pay Act 1972

Being honest and working together to fix pay fairness problems

13C: Good faith in pay equity claim process

Equal Pay Act 1972

Reporting unfair pay differences to make things fairer

Equal Pay Act 1972

Unions can help their members with fair pay claims by acting on their behalf.

13D: Union right to represent members

Equal Pay Act 1972

When you can ask for fair pay if you think you're not being paid the same as others

13E: Circumstances in which unions and employees may raise pay equity claims

Equal Pay Act 1972

What 'has merit' means in a pay equity claim

13F: Meaning of has merit

Equal Pay Act 1972

What you must do when making a pay equity claim

13G: Requirements relating to all pay equity claims

Equal Pay Act 1972

What you need to include when making a pay claim as an individual employee

13H: Requirements for claim raised by individual employee

Equal Pay Act 1972

What unions need to include when making a fair pay claim

13I: Requirements for claim raised by union or unions

Equal Pay Act 1972

Employer must say they got your pay claim and tell the union within 5 working days.

13J: Employer must acknowledge receipt of pay equity claim and notify unions

Equal Pay Act 1972

Claims that involve more than one employer

Equal Pay Act 1972

When a union helps workers claim fair pay from many employers, those employers must work together to fix the problem.

13K: Union-raised claims raised with multiple employers: employers must enter into pay equity process agreement

Equal Pay Act 1972

How to leave a shared pay fairness claim with other employers

13L: Opting out of multi-employer pay equity claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Combining multiple claims into one to make the process easier and faster for you.

Equal Pay Act 1972

When two unions make similar pay claims to the same employer, they must combine them into one claim.

13M: Multiple union claims raised with single employer: unions must consolidate

Equal Pay Act 1972

Combining pay fairness claims with new or different employers

13N: Consolidation of claim raised with additional or new employer with existing union-raised claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Asking to combine two pay claims into one

13O: Process to request consent to consolidate

Equal Pay Act 1972

What happens when multiple pay claims are combined into one claim to sort out equal pay issues

13P: Effect of consolidation

Equal Pay Act 1972

What happens when an employer makes a decision about a pay equity claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Does the employer think the pay equity claim is worth looking into?

13Q: Employer’s decision about whether claim has merit

Equal Pay Act 1972

Notice to extend time for employer to decide on pay equity claim

13R: Notice extending time limit for employer’s decisions about pay equity claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

What employers must do after deciding if a pay equity claim is fair or not

13S: Employer’s obligations after deciding whether claim has merit

Equal Pay Act 1972

What employers must do when workers claim unfair pay in a multi-employer situation

13T: Employer decisions about multi-employer pay equity claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Employer must tell staff about a valid pay equity claim within 20 working days.

13U: Employer must give notice of first pay equity claim that has merit raised by individual employee

Equal Pay Act 1972

Employers must tell staff about valid pay equity claims in a clear and timely notice.

13V: Employer must give notice of first pay equity claim that has merit raised by union

Equal Pay Act 1972

If a union makes a claim, it automatically includes employees who are affected.

Equal Pay Act 1972

You're automatically part of a union's pay claim if you do similar work.

13W: Affected employees automatically covered by union claims

Equal Pay Act 1972

Unions can't make non-members pay fees for help with a claim

13X: Union may not require fees from non-members

Equal Pay Act 1972

You can choose not to be part of a union's equal pay claim if you're not a union member.

13Y: Employees may opt out of pay equity claim raised by union

Equal Pay Act 1972

Employer must tell the union about employees affected by a pay claim

13Z: Employer must notify union of employees covered by union-raised claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

New employees doing similar work are covered by a union's pay claim and must be told about it.

13ZA: New employees covered by union-raised claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Talking about fair pay to make sure everyone gets paid equally for the same work.

Equal Pay Act 1972

What happens when your pay claim is fair and reasonable?

13ZB: Process applies to claims that have merit

Equal Pay Act 1972

Telling the other side what they need to know for a fair pay claim

13ZC: Duty to provide information

Equal Pay Act 1972

What to consider when checking if a job's pay is fair

13ZD: Matters to be assessed

Equal Pay Act 1972

Choosing someone to compare your pay with to make sure you get fair pay

13ZE: Selecting appropriate comparators

Equal Pay Act 1972

Fixing a problem where someone is not paid fairly for their work.

Equal Pay Act 1972

Unions must ask employees to vote on pay equity settlements before agreeing to them.

13ZF: Requirement for union to obtain mandate before settling pay equity claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Rules for fair pay talks between employers and employees

13ZG: Application of section 63A of Employment Relations Act 2000 to pay equity bargaining

Equal Pay Act 1972

Agreeing on fair pay for men and women at work

13ZH: Settling pay equity claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Unfair treatment when settling a pay equity claim on your own

13ZI: Unfair bargaining for pay equity claim settlement

Equal Pay Act 1972

What happens if an employer doesn't bargain fairly with you

13ZJ: Remedies for unfair bargaining

Equal Pay Act 1972

Send a copy of your pay equity agreement to the boss of the government department

13ZK: Copy of pay equity claim settlement to be delivered to chief executive

Equal Pay Act 1972

Getting the same pay and work conditions as others who made a pay equity claim

13ZL: Offers of benefit of pay equity claim settlement to other employees

Equal Pay Act 1972

What happens to your job agreement when a pay equity claim is settled

13ZM: Effect of pay equity claim settlement on employment agreements

Equal Pay Act 1972

How collective agreements affect ongoing pay equity claims

13ZN: Relationship between pay equity claims and collective bargaining

Equal Pay Act 1972

Talking things through to make sure people get paid fairly

Equal Pay Act 1972

You can use a mediator to help solve pay problems fairly.

13ZO: Parties may refer issues to mediation

Equal Pay Act 1972

Help is available to make sure people get paid fairly for the work they do.

Equal Pay Act 1972

Help to resolve pay equity claims when you can't agree

13ZP: Purpose of facilitating pay equity claim

Equal Pay Act 1972

Asking for help from the Authority to resolve pay equity claims

13ZQ: Reference to Authority

Equal Pay Act 1972

When can the Authority help with a pay problem if someone hasn't been treated fairly or talks have failed?

13ZR: When Authority may accept reference

Land Transport Act 1998

How courts decide penalties for breaking work time and logbook rules

79PA: Matters to be taken into account in imposing penalty for offence against section 79O

Land Transport Act 1998

Rules for everyone involved in roads and transport

4: General requirements for participants in land transport system

Land Transport Act 1998

Rules for deciding if someone can work in transport to keep people safe

30C: General safety criteria

Land Transport Act 1998

Rules for deciding if someone can run a big bus or taxi service

30E: Additional criteria for large passenger service

Land Transport Act 1998

This law explains who needs to follow special driving rules at work

30ZB: Application of subpart

Land Transport Act 1998

Rules about how long drivers can work and when they must rest

30ZC: Limits on work time

Land Transport Act 1998

Keep records if you employ or connect drivers with passengers

30ZD: Records must be kept

Land Transport Act 1998

The Director can choose or cancel different ways to track work time

30ZG: Director may approve or revoke alternative means of recording matters

Land Transport Act 1998

You can't teach driving for money without a special licence

33A: Offence to operate as driving instructor without authorisation

Land Transport Act 1998

Breaking rules about keeping records or following special permissions for drivers and transport companies

79N: Failure to keep or produce records or comply with conditions of exemption or approval

Land Transport Act 1998

Breaking the rules about work time and rest for certain drivers

79O: Failure to comply with prescribed work time restrictions or rest time requirements

Land Transport Act 1998

Ways to defend yourself if you're accused of working too long

79P: Defences to work time offences

Land Transport Act 1998

Breaking rules about logbooks can get you in trouble

79Q: Failure to discharge duties regarding logbooks

Land Transport Act 1998

Rules about using logbooks correctly and what happens if you break them

79R: Offences and proceedings concerning logbooks

Land Transport Act 1998

Emergency stop for unsafe drivers, instructors, or testers to keep people safe

87D: Immediate suspension of transport service driver and other persons in interests of public safety

Land Transport Act 1998

Rules about getting special papers for transport jobs and activities

159: Rules concerning land transport documents

Land Transport Act 1998

Rules for moving Agency workers to new jobs

223: Transfer provisions for certain employees of Agency

Public Works Act 1981

Rules about workers' inventions no longer exist in this law

225A: Inventions, etc, by employees

Auctioneers Act 2013

You need to be registered to work as an auctioneer

5: Registration of person carrying on business as auctioneer

Auctioneers Act 2013

How to apply to become an auctioneer

8: Application for registration to carry on business as auctioneer

Employment Relations Act 2000

Flexible Work Rules

Employment Relations Act 2000

This part explains how workers can ask to change their work setup and how bosses should handle these requests.

69AA: Object of this Part

Employment Relations Act 2000

This section explains important words and ideas used in the flexible working rules, like what counts as working arrangements and who is affected by family violence.

69AAA: Interpretation

Employment Relations Act 2000

Workers can ask for changes to their work arrangements

Employment Relations Act 2000

You can ask your boss to change how you work whenever you want.

69AAB: When employee may make request

Employment Relations Act 2000

What you need to include when asking to change how you work

69AAC: Requirements relating to request

Employment Relations Act 2000

You can only ask your boss for changes to your work a certain number of times.

69AAD: Limitation on frequency of requests

Employment Relations Act 2000

What the boss must do when someone asks to work differently

Employment Relations Act 2000

The boss must quickly tell you if they agree with your request to change how you work.

69AAE: Employer must notify decision as soon as possible

Employment Relations Act 2000

An employer can say no to a worker's request for different work hours only for certain reasons.

69AAF: Grounds for refusal of request by employer

Employment Relations Act 2000

How to fix problems when people disagree about flexible work

Employment Relations Act 2000

A Labour Inspector can help workers and bosses with flexible work problems.

69AAG: Role of Labour Inspector

Employment Relations Act 2000

People who help workers and bosses fix problems when they can't agree about flexible work

69AAH: Labour Inspectors and mediation

Employment Relations Act 2000

Asking the Authority to Help with a Problem at Work

69AAI: Application to Authority

Employment Relations Act 2000

If bosses don't follow the rules about flexible work, they might have to pay money to their worker.

69AAJ: Penalty

Employment Relations Act 2000

Workers can only challenge their boss's decision about flexible work in specific situations.

69AAK: Limitation on challenging employer

Employment Relations Act 2000

Looking back at the rules for flexible work

Employment Relations Act 2000

The law will be checked after two years to see how well it's working.

69AAL: Review of operation of Part after 2 years

Employment Relations Act 2000

The Employment Court can't look into certain work-related issues that the Employment Relations Authority has already dealt with.

179B: Limitations on consideration by Employment Court of matters arising under Part 6AA or 6AB

Employment Relations Act 2000

When your boss treats you unfairly because of a health and safety reason that's not okay.

110A: Adverse conduct for prohibited health and safety reason

Employment Relations Act 2000

Rules for treating police workers fairly when they do their job

100F: Code of good faith for employment relationships in relation to provision of services by New Zealand Police

Employment Relations Act 2000

Changing the rules for working with New Zealand Police

100G: Amendments to or replacement of code of good faith for employment relationships in relation to provision of services by New Zealand Police

Employment Relations Act 2000

Rules for the Police and their workers to work together fairly and respectfully

Schedule 1C: Code of good faith for employment relationships in relation to provision of services by Police

Employment Relations Act 2000

You can try out a new job for up to 90 days, and your boss can let you go during this time without you being able to complain about it.

67A: Employment agreement may contain provision for trial period for 90 days or less

Employment Relations Act 2000

This rule explains what happens when a boss ends a worker's job during a trial period.

67B: Effect of trial provision under section 67A

Employment Relations Act 2000

Breastfeeding at Work Rules

Employment Relations Act 2000

This explains what certain words mean in the rules about breastfeeding at work.

69X: Interpretation

Employment Relations Act 2000

Employers should provide suitable places and time for workers to breastfeed at work if possible.

69Y: Employer's obligation

Employment Relations Act 2000

Mums can have extra breaks to feed their babies, on top of their regular work breaks.

69Z: Breastfeeding breaks additional to breaks under Part 6D

Employment Relations Act 2000

A guide that explains how bosses should help workers who need to feed their babies

69ZA: Code of employment practice relating to employer's obligation

Employment Relations Act 2000

If employers don't provide proper breastfeeding breaks and facilities, they might have to pay a fine.

69ZB: Penalty

Employment Relations Act 2000

Breaks at Work

Employment Relations Act 2000

This part explains what 'work period' means in simple terms, including when work starts, ends, and any breaks in between.

69ZC: Interpretation

Employment Relations Act 2000

Workers get breaks during their work day, and bosses must give them these breaks.

69ZD: Employee’s entitlement to, and employer’s duty to provide, rest breaks and meal breaks

Employment Relations Act 2000

This law explains when workers should take their breaks during the day if they haven't already agreed on times with their boss.

69ZE: Timing of rest breaks and meal breaks

Employment Relations Act 2000

The boss might get in trouble if they don't give you proper break times.

69ZF: Penalty

Employment Relations Act 2000

This law explains how work agreements and rest break rules work together, making sure you get fair breaks at work.

69ZG: Relationship between Part and employment agreements

Employment Relations Act 2000

This law explains which break rules to follow when there are different sets of rules for rest and meal breaks.

69ZH: Relationship between this Part and other enactments

Employment Relations Act 2000

Union reps must ask bosses for permission to enter the workplace

20A: Representative of union must obtain consent to enter workplace

Employment Relations Act 2000

You might have to pay money if you get in the way of people looking into work problems.

134A: Penalty for obstructing or delaying Authority investigation

Employment Relations Act 2000

Solving problems with your employer through talking and agreeing

148A: Certain entitlements may be subject to mediation and agreed terms of settlement

Employment Relations Act 2000

Someone can suggest a solution to your problem, and if you agree, it becomes the final decision.

149A: Recommendation to parties

Employment Relations Act 2000

The person in charge makes sure everything runs smoothly and fairly for workers and bosses

166A: Role of Chief of Authority

Employment Relations Act 2000

Promises that must be kept

Employment Relations Act 2000

Notices that tell someone how to fix a problem at work

Employment Relations Act 2000

A Labour Inspector can give you a notice to fix a problem if you're not following the law at work.

223D: Labour Inspector may issue improvement notice

Employment Relations Act 2000

The law says the government can make sure promises made by employers are kept, and there are consequences if they don't.

223C: Enforcement of undertakings

Employment Relations Act 2000

The Employment Relations Authority must deal with cases that have already tried mediation before looking at other cases.

159A: Duty of Authority to prioritise previously mediated matters

Employment Relations Act 2000

The Authority member can suggest a solution, and if everyone agrees, it becomes the final decision.

173A: Recommendation to parties

Employment Relations Act 2000

You can ask a court to check if your case was fairly thrown out for being silly or annoying.

178A: Challenge in respect of dismissal of frivolous or vexatious proceedings

Employment Relations Act 2000

Labour Inspectors check and help make sure people follow work rules.

223A: Functions of Labour Inspector

Employment Relations Act 2000

A promise made by an employer to fix problems or pay money owed, which can be enforced by law.

223B: Enforceable undertakings

Employment Relations Act 2000

You can tell the Authority if you don't agree with a notice telling you to fix something at work.

223E: Objection to improvement notice

Employment Relations Act 2000

If you don't follow the notice to make things better, you might have to pay money as a punishment.

223F: Penalty

Employment Relations Act 2000

A Labour Inspector can take back a notice telling someone to fix something at work, but they can still give a new notice about the same problem.

223G: Withdrawal of improvement notice

Employment Relations Act 2000

Workers must vote secretly before they can go on strike

82A: Requirement for union to hold secret ballot before strike

Employment Relations Act 2000

Union members vote on whether they support going on strike

82B: Terms of question for secret ballot

Employment Relations Act 2000

Secret voting is not needed when workers want to stop work because it's not safe or healthy.

82C: When requirement for secret ballot does not apply

Employment Relations Act 2000

Creating fair and respectful workplaces for everyone

Employment Relations Act 2000

This law tells us what the Act is called.

1: Title

Employment Relations Act 2000

This law explains when the new rules start to work.

2: Commencement

Employment Relations Act 2000

Main Rules

Employment Relations Act 2000

This law aims to create fair and positive work relationships by encouraging good behaviour between workers and bosses.

3: Object of this Act

Employment Relations Act 2000

Being fair and honest in work relationships

Employment Relations Act 2000

People at work should be honest, kind, and helpful to each other, like good friends.

4: Parties to employment relationship to deal with each other in good faith

Employment Relations Act 2000

You can get in trouble for breaking the rules about being fair at work.

4A: Penalty for certain breaches of duty of good faith

Employment Relations Act 2000

Basic rules explained

Employment Relations Act 2000

This part explains what important words mean in the law.

Employment Relations Act 2000

What special words mean in the Employment Relations Act 2000

5: Interpretation

Employment Relations Act 2000

This explains who counts as a worker and who doesn't in the eyes of the law.

6: Meaning of employee

Employment Relations Act 2000

Examples help explain the law but don't change what it means.

6A: Status of examples

Employment Relations Act 2000

Being free to choose

Employment Relations Act 2000

Your right to choose about joining a union

7: Object of this Part

Employment Relations Act 2000

You can choose to join a union or not, it's up to you

8: Voluntary membership of unions

Employment Relations Act 2000

No special treatment for union members

9: Prohibition on preference

Employment Relations Act 2000

Rules that go against your right to join or not join a union won't work

10: Contracts, agreements, or other arrangements inconsistent with section 8 or section 9

Employment Relations Act 2000

You can't force someone to join or leave a union, or stop them from helping other workers.

11: Undue influence

Employment Relations Act 2000

Unions and Workers' Rights

Employment Relations Act 2000

This part explains how unions are recognised, registered, and allowed to help workers at their jobs.

12: Object of this Part

Employment Relations Act 2000

How unions are officially registered and other related topics

Employment Relations Act 2000

A group can ask to become an official workers' club if they follow the right steps.

13: Application by society to register as union

Employment Relations Act 2000

When can a group be officially recognised as a workers' union?

14: When society entitled to be registered as union

Employment Relations Act 2000

This law explains how a group of workers can become an official union by asking the government to recognise them.

15: Registration of society as union

Employment Relations Act 2000

Unions must tell the government how many members they have each year.

16: Annual return of members

Employment Relations Act 2000

This explains how and when a union can be removed from the official list of unions.

17: Cancellation of union's registration

Employment Relations Act 2000

Unions can speak up for the workers who join them

Employment Relations Act 2000

The union can speak up for workers as a group and help with personal issues if asked.

18: Union entitled to represent members' interests

Employment Relations Act 2000

Allowing union representatives to enter workplaces

Employment Relations Act 2000

A place where someone lives is not counted as a workplace when it comes to certain rules.

19: Workplace does not include dwellinghouse

Employment Relations Act 2000

Union representatives can visit workplaces to help workers and talk about union matters.

20: Access to workplaces

Employment Relations Act 2000

Union representatives' rights to enter workplaces

21: Conditions relating to access to workplaces

Employment Relations Act 2000

When You Can't Enter a Workplace for Security or Crime Reasons

22: When access to workplaces may be denied

Employment Relations Act 2000

Sometimes, a union helper can't go into a small workplace if the boss has a special paper and no workers belong to a union.

23: When access to workplaces may be denied on religious grounds

Employment Relations Act 2000

Getting a special exemption certificate because of your religious beliefs

24: Issue of certificate of exemption

Employment Relations Act 2000

Getting in trouble for stopping union reps from doing their job at work

25: Penalty for certain acts in relation to entering workplace

Employment Relations Act 2000

When workers who belong to a union get together to talk about important things

Employment Relations Act 2000

Time off work to attend union meetings

26: Union meetings

Employment Relations Act 2000

The person in charge of keeping track of worker groups

Employment Relations Act 2000

A person who keeps official records of worker groups and their deputy

27: Registrar of Unions

Employment Relations Act 2000

The person in charge of keeping track of unions can ask a special group for help with their job.

28: Registrar of Unions may seek directions of Authority

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Ensuring safety and open communication in workplaces

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Rules for keeping people safe at work and explaining important words

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

This provision explains the main goals of the law for keeping people safe at work

3: Purpose

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Rules for managing changes to the law

4: Transitional, savings, and related provisions

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

How health and safety rules apply to the Armed Forces

7: Application of Act to Armed Forces

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

This Act applies to aircraft during operation, including domestic flights and some international flights with NZ-employed workers

9: Application of Act to aircraft in operation

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Ships covered by this law: New Zealand ships worldwide and foreign ships in NZ waters

10: Application of Act to ships

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

This Act covers work in specific sea areas and offshore travel around New Zealand

11: Application of Act in exclusive economic zone and in or on continental shelf

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Rules for dangerous equipment apply even outside the workplace

12: Application of Act to prescribed high-risk plant

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Prisoners working in prison are not covered by Part 3 of this law

15: Part 3 does not apply to prisoners

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Main ideas about keeping people safe at work

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

This part explains the important words used in the law about safety at work

16: Interpretation

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Important words you need to know

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Who counts as a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU)

17: Meaning of PCBU

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Who counts as a worker under this law

19: Meaning of worker

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

What counts as a workplace under health and safety law

20: Meaning of workplace

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Explanation of what 'supply' means in this act

21: Meaning of supply

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Explaining what 'reasonably practicable' means for workplace safety

22: Meaning of reasonably practicable

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Explaining what counts as a serious work-related injury or illness

23: Meaning of notifiable injury or illness

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

What counts as a dangerous event at work that must be reported

24: Meaning of notifiable incident

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

What counts as a serious work-related event that must be reported

25: Meaning of notifiable event

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Some cases that show what this part of the law means

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Examples in this law help explain but don't limit or override the actual rules

26: Status of examples

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Employers can't charge workers for workplace health and safety

27: PCBU must not levy workers

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

You can't make agreements that avoid or change this law

28: No contracting out

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Rules for keeping people safe at work

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Business owners must ensure workers' and others' safety and health

36: Primary duty of care

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

PCBUs must ensure workplace safety for all legal visitors

37: Duty of PCBU who manages or controls workplace

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Responsibility to keep workplace equipment safe

38: Duty of PCBU who manages or controls fixtures, fittings, or plant at workplaces

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Designers must ensure work-related products are safe for all users

39: Duty of PCBU who designs plant, substances, or structures

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Manufacturers must ensure workplace products are safe for users

40: Duty of PCBU who manufactures plant, substances, or structures

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Importers must ensure safety of work-related machines, chemicals, and structures

41: Duty of PCBU who imports plant, substances, or structures

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Businesses must ensure safety of supplied workplace equipment and materials

42: Duty of PCBU who supplies plant, substances, or structures

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Responsibilities when installing, building, or setting up workplace equipment or structures

43: Duty of PCBU who installs, constructs, or commissions plant or structures

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Officers must ensure their organisation follows health and safety laws

44: Duty of officers

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Workers' responsibilities for health and safety at work

45: Duties of workers

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Stay safe and follow instructions at work to protect yourself and others

46: Duties of other persons at workplace

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Punishment for knowingly risking someone's life or health at work

47: Offence of reckless conduct in respect of duty

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Penalties for not following health and safety duties that risk lives or cause serious harm

48: Offence of failing to comply with duty that exposes individual to risk of death or serious injury or serious illness

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Penalties for not meeting workplace health and safety responsibilities

49: Offence of failing to comply with duty

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Rules about who is responsible when something goes wrong at work

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Officers can be held responsible for breaching their duties, even if their organisation isn't

50: Liability of officers

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Volunteers are not liable for most offences but must follow worker and workplace safety rules

51: Liability of volunteers

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Certain elected or appointed officials are protected from health and safety liability

52: Liability of certain office holders

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

More information about breaking the rules

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Protection from liability when trying to prevent harm to others

53: Actions taken to prevent harm

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

You can be guilty of certain health and safety offences without intending to commit them

54: Proof of intention not required for certain offences

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Workers' rights and safety: How to talk about problems and stay safe at work

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Talking with workers about safety

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

You must talk with workers about health and safety matters

58: Duty to engage with workers

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

How to involve workers in health and safety discussions

59: Nature of engagement

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

When you must talk with workers about health and safety at work

60: When engagement is required

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Ways workers can be involved in workplace safety

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Businesses must involve workers in improving workplace health and safety

61: Duty to have worker participation practices

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Choosing people to speak up about safety at work

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

How workers can request and employers must arrange health and safety representative elections

62: Election of health and safety representatives

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Deciding which workers belong together in groups

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

How work groups are set up for health and safety representation

64: Determination of work groups

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Extra rules for health and safety in mining

68: Further provisions relating to mining sector

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and safety reps can issue notices to address workplace safety concerns

69: Provisional improvement notices

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Training needed before health and safety reps can issue improvement notices

70: Training requirements relating to issue of provisional improvement notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Rules for health and safety reps when giving out notices about possible rule-breaking

71: Requirements relating to provisional improvement notices

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Notices can include advice on how to fix workplace safety issues

72: Provisional improvement notice may include recommendations to remedy contravention

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and safety reps can make small changes to clarify or correct a provisional improvement notice

73: Minor changes to provisional improvement notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and safety reps: How to properly issue a provisional improvement notice

74: Issue of provisional improvement notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

How health and safety reps can cancel an improvement notice they issued

75: Cancellation of provisional improvement notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Display the improvement notice where workers can see it

76: Display of provisional improvement notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Small mistakes don't make a notice invalid

77: Irregularities or defects in notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Penalties for not following a temporary safety improvement order

78: Offence relating to breach of provisional improvement notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

How to ask for a review of a workplace safety notice

79: Review of provisional improvement notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Inspector must review notice when someone asks

80: Regulator must ensure inspector reviews notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Inspector reviews and decides on a provisional improvement notice

81: Decision of inspector on review of provisional improvement notice

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

What 'cease work' means in this law

82: Meaning of cease work

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

You can stop working if you believe it's seriously dangerous

83: Right of worker to cease or refuse to carry out unsafe work

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Safety rep can stop dangerous work to prevent serious harm

84: Health and safety representative may direct unsafe work to cease

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Your employer can assign you safe, alternative work if your usual job is unsafe

86: Alternative work

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

WorkSafe can help solve problems about stopping work for safety reasons

87: Regulator may assist to resolve issues relating to cessation of work

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

What counts as unfair treatment due to health and safety actions or views

88: Meaning of adverse conduct

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

What counts as an unfair reason for treating workers badly over health and safety matters

89: Meaning of prohibited health and safety reason

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

You can't treat people badly for health and safety reasons

90: Prohibition on adverse conduct

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Don't encourage or help others to mistreat workers for health and safety actions

91: Prohibition on requesting, instructing, inducing, encouraging, authorising, or assisting adverse conduct

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

You can't force or pressure others about health and safety duties

92: Prohibition on coercion or inducement

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Don't lie about health and safety rights or processes

93: Misrepresentation

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

How to prove unfair treatment due to health and safety concerns at work

94: Proof of adverse conduct

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Rules about taking legal action when someone treats workers unfairly for speaking up about safety

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Legal action for unfair treatment over health and safety matters

95: Civil proceedings in relation to engaging in or inducing adverse or coercive conduct

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

How to start a legal case about unfair treatment at work due to health and safety concerns

96: Procedure for civil proceedings for adverse conduct

Social Security Act 2018

Help for People Who Need Financial Support

Social Security Act 2018

This law helps people in need by giving money and support

3: Purpose of this Act

Social Security Act 2018

Main ideas for helping people with jobs and money

4: Principles

Social Security Act 2018

Rules for getting help when you're looking for a job

20: Jobseeker support: requirements

Social Security Act 2018

A work gap is when you can't work as much as usual because you're sick or hurt

21: What is work gap

Social Security Act 2018

When the law considers you ready and able to work

22: When person is available for work

Social Security Act 2018

Age rules for getting jobseeker support

23: Jobseeker support: age requirement

Social Security Act 2018

You can get help if you have no money or very little money

24: Jobseeker support: no or minimum income

Social Security Act 2018

Jobseeker support: extra money for people who are struggling financially

25: Jobseeker support: discretionary grant on ground of hardship

Social Security Act 2018

When you can't get jobseeker support

26: Jobseeker support: ineligibility

Social Security Act 2018

You need a doctor's note to get jobseeker support for health reasons

27: Jobseeker support: on ground of health condition, injury, or disability: application must include certificate

Social Security Act 2018

MSD might ask you to see a doctor if you apply for jobseeker support because of health reasons

28: Jobseeker support: on ground of health condition, injury, or disability: medical examination

Social Security Act 2018

Your support changes from sole parent to jobseeker when your youngest child turns 14

33: Expiry of sole parent support, and replacement with jobseeker support, when youngest dependent child turns 14 years old

Social Security Act 2018

Money for people who can't work much or can't see at all

Social Security Act 2018

Rules for getting money to help if you can't work much or can't see

34: Supported living payment: on ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness: requirements

Social Security Act 2018

When you can't work much because of a long-lasting health problem or disability

35: When person has restricted work capacity

Social Security Act 2018

You can't get support if you caused your own work problems or blindness on purpose

36: Supported living payment: on ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness: ineligibility

Social Security Act 2018

Medical check-up for people who can't work much or are blind and want financial help

37: Supported living payment: on ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness: medical examination

Social Security Act 2018

Helping people with health problems try working while keeping their support payment

39: Supported living payment: on ground of restricted work capacity: encouraging open employment

Social Security Act 2018

Youth payment helps young people with little or no money

51: Youth payment: no or minimum income

Social Security Act 2018

Extra help for young people in tough times

53: Youth payment: discretionary grant on ground of hardship

Social Security Act 2018

Youth payment can continue for a short time after you turn 18

54: Youth payment: continuation after turning 18 years old

Social Security Act 2018

Extra money for young people who follow special rules

55: Youth payment: incentive payments

Social Security Act 2018

When you're ready or available for full-time study or training

57: When person is study ready

Social Security Act 2018

Extra money for young parents who follow certain rules

62: Young parent payment: incentive payments

Social Security Act 2018

Help for people who can't earn enough money

63: Emergency benefit: discretionary grant on ground of hardship

Social Security Act 2018

Temporary extra money to help with basic costs when you're struggling

95: Temporary additional support: purpose

Social Security Act 2018

You might get less or no extra money if you or your partner do certain things

97: Temporary additional support: refusal, reduction, or cancellation of grant in certain circumstances

Social Security Act 2018

This part explains important words used in the rules about extra money help

98: Interpretation

Social Security Act 2018

This rule about special help notices no longer exists

102: Special assistance: status of, and access to, notices

Social Security Act 2018

A quick overview of what you need to know

Social Security Act 2018

This part explains the duties of MSD and people who get benefits

104: What this Part does

Social Security Act 2018

Making sure people know what they need to do

Social Security Act 2018

MSD must clearly explain your responsibilities and rights when you get social support

106: MSD must make people affected aware of their obligations, consequences of non-compliance, and their review and appeal rights

Social Security Act 2018

MSD must tell you how leaving New Zealand affects your benefit

107: MSD must explain rules relating to absence from New Zealand

Social Security Act 2018

Rules that people getting money from the government must follow

Social Security Act 2018

Rules for people getting benefits: what you need to do

109: Outline of beneficiary’s general and specific obligations

Social Security Act 2018

You need to give MSD your tax number when you ask for or get help with money

112: Beneficiary must supply tax file number

Social Security Act 2018

You must tell us if something important in your life changes

Social Security Act 2018

You must tell MSD about changes in your life that might affect your benefit

113: Beneficiary must notify change of circumstances

Social Security Act 2018

Tell someone if you're going to leave New Zealand

Social Security Act 2018

Things you must do when your ability to work is checked

Social Security Act 2018

You must have a check to see if you can work

115: Obligation to undergo work ability assessment

Social Security Act 2018

Work ability checks for some benefit receivers

116: Persons subject to work ability assessment

Social Security Act 2018

Who doesn't need to do a work test for their payment

117: Persons not subject to work ability assessment

Social Security Act 2018

A check-up to see how well you can work and what help you might need

118: Work ability assessment

Social Security Act 2018

You might lose money if you miss a work ability test without a good reason

119: Person who fails to comply with requirement to undergo work ability assessment is subject to sanction

Social Security Act 2018

Rules about getting ready for work

Social Security Act 2018

Getting ready for work while receiving benefits

120: Work-preparation obligations

Social Security Act 2018

Who needs to follow work-preparation rules

121: Persons subject to work-preparation obligations

Social Security Act 2018

Who doesn't need to prepare for work

122: Persons not subject to work-preparation obligations

Social Security Act 2018

Work preparation tasks for some people getting supported living payments

123: Persons subject to work-preparation obligations if sufficient capacity to comply

Social Security Act 2018

You must try your best to get ready for work

124: General obligation to take all steps to prepare for employment

Social Security Act 2018

MSD can make you do things to get ready for work

125: Work-preparation obligations as required by MSD

Social Security Act 2018

You may be punished if you don't do your work-preparation tasks without a good reason

126: Person who fails to comply with work-preparation obligation subject to sanction

Social Security Act 2018

Rules for taking care of kids when you get money from the government

128: Obligations of beneficiary in relation to dependent children

Social Security Act 2018

Responsibilities for your partner's children when they get government help

130: Obligations of spouse or partner of beneficiary in relation to dependent children of spouse or partner

Social Security Act 2018

Rules about what you must do if you're looking for work

Social Security Act 2018

Rules about what you need to do to get some types of financial help

138: Work-test obligations

Social Security Act 2018

These sections explain how to keep your benefits by trying to find or keep a job

139: Purpose of sections 140 to 154

Social Security Act 2018

Who needs to follow work rules when getting government help

140: Persons subject to work-test obligations

Social Security Act 2018

Rules for working while on jobseeker support due to health reasons

141: Jobseeker support: work capacity determination and work test

Social Security Act 2018

When you don't need to follow work rules

142: Person not subject to work-test obligations

Social Security Act 2018

When you must follow work rules if you get government help

143: Time when work-test obligation applies

Social Security Act 2018

You must be ready to work and look for suitable jobs

144: General obligation to be available for suitable employment, etc

Social Security Act 2018

What MSD thinks is a good job for you

145: Meaning of suitable employment

Social Security Act 2018

MSD can ask you to do things to help you find a job

146: Work-test obligations as required by MSD

Social Security Act 2018

You must take and pass a drug test when asked for work or training

147: Obligation to undertake and pass drug test

Social Security Act 2018

What counts as a proper drug test according to the law

148: Compliant drug test defined

Social Security Act 2018

What happens if you don't pass a drug test for a job or training

149: Failing drug test

Social Security Act 2018

MSD can pay for job-related drug tests, but there are rules

151: Costs of drug test

Social Security Act 2018

You might lose some benefits if you don't follow the work rules

153: Person who fails to comply with work-test obligations is subject to sanction

Social Security Act 2018

When you're thought to have broken work rules without a good excuse

154: Deemed failure to comply with work-test obligation

Social Security Act 2018

Putting off duties related to finding a job

Social Security Act 2018

When MSD can put off your job-seeking tasks

155: Deferral of work-test obligations

Social Security Act 2018

What happens when you get a break from job-hunting tasks

156: Effect of deferral of work-test obligations

Social Security Act 2018

Ways to be excused from doing things the law says you should do

Social Security Act 2018

Rules can be made about who doesn't need to do certain tasks and why

157: Regulations may specify categories of exempt persons and grounds for exemption

Social Security Act 2018

MSD can let you off some work or other duties if you ask and qualify

158: MSD may grant exemption from work-preparation, work-test, or other obligation

Social Security Act 2018

How to ask for and manage breaks from your duties when getting social security help

160: Procedure for grant of exemption

Social Security Act 2018

You might lose money if you miss an interview without a good reason

161: Person who fails to comply with requirement to attend interview is subject to sanction

Social Security Act 2018

Things you must do when you get money from the government as a young person

162: Obligations of young person granted youth support payment

Social Security Act 2018

Rules for young jobseekers who might need help for a long time

Social Security Act 2018

Young people getting jobseeker support might need special help

165: Young person aged 18 or 19 years who is receiving jobseeker support in young person’s own right and who is at significant risk of long-term welfare dependency

Social Security Act 2018

Help for young parents aged 16-19 who are with someone getting a benefit

167: Young person aged 16 to 19 years who has dependent child and who is spouse or partner of specified beneficiary

Social Security Act 2018

Young person might need extra help to avoid long-term benefit use

168: Young person aged 18 or 19 years, who is receiving jobseeker support as spouse or partner of person granted that benefit, or who is work-tested spouse or partner of specified beneficiary, and who is at significant risk of long-term welfare dependency

Social Security Act 2018

What certain words mean in this part of the law about young people, their partners, and benefits

169: Interpretation

Social Security Act 2018

You must work with the people hired to help you

Social Security Act 2018

You must work with MSD's hired helpers if you get certain benefits

170: Obligation to work with contracted service providers

Social Security Act 2018

Different types of things you must do

Social Security Act 2018

Health, safety, and human rights rules apply when doing work as part of MSD activities

181: Application of health and safety legislation, etc

Social Security Act 2018

Your benefit rules are paused if MSD lets you keep getting money while overseas

182: Obligations suspended where MSD has exercised discretion to pay benefit while beneficiary overseas

Social Security Act 2018

This part explains things that can change your benefit

183: What this Part does

Social Security Act 2018

Things you need to do before you can get help from the government

Social Security Act 2018

The government can make rules about tasks you might need to do before getting money help

184: Regulations may prescribe pre-benefit activities

Social Security Act 2018

How insurance payouts can change your benefits

Social Security Act 2018

Things that can lower your benefit: money you get from other countries

Social Security Act 2018

This rule about keeping benefits the same in some cases no longer exists

193: No reduction in certain cases

Social Security Act 2018

How getting money for an injury or unfair dismissal affects your benefit application

197: Effect of compensation or damages on application for benefit

Social Security Act 2018

Money from benefits might be reduced if you also get payments for lost earnings due to an accident

198: Loss of earnings compensation under Accident Compensation Act 2001

Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

This section talks about who is responsible when workers make mistakes.

Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

When can workers who move goods be responsible for damages?

272: Liability of carrier’s employee

Legislation Act 2019

Agreements between the government and employee unions about work conditions

141: Collective agreements

Legislation Act 2019

Being a good boss: treating staff fairly and with respect

142: Employment principles

Residential Tenancies Act 1986

Rules for ending a special type of rental agreement when it's connected to a job

53: Special provisions for notice terminating service tenancies

Fair Trading Act 1986

Be honest about jobs and don't trick people looking for work

12: Misleading conduct in relation to employment

Accident Compensation Act 2001

What words mean in this law about accidents and injuries

6: Interpretation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Money your spouse pays you for work: when it counts as earnings

10: Earnings as an employee: payments to spouse or partner

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Things not counted as your earnings when you're an employee

11: Earnings as an employee: what it does not include

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Work payments not counted for Work Account levy

12: Earnings as an employee: Work Account levy payable under section 168

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How the ACC counts money earned by people who work in other people's homes

13: Earnings of private domestic workers

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How money is counted when you work for yourself

14: Earnings as a self-employed person

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How the law calculates money you make as an owner-worker in a company

15: Earnings as a shareholder-employee

Accident Compensation Act 2001

An introduction to the rules that come next

Accident Compensation Act 2001

This part explains important words used in the law about accidents and injuries

19: Key terms in this Part

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC covers most injuries in New Zealand, but not all mental injuries

20: Cover for personal injury suffered in New Zealand (except mental injury caused by certain criminal acts or work-related mental injury)

Accident Compensation Act 2001

What counts as an accident when you get hurt

25: Accident

Accident Compensation Act 2001

What counts as getting hurt or injured under the law

26: Personal injury

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Getting hurt at work or while doing job-related tasks

28: Work-related personal injury

Accident Compensation Act 2001

When you get hurt at work and in a car: deciding what type of injury it is

29: Personal injury that is both work-related and motor vehicle injury

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Work injuries that happen slowly over time

30: Personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection

Accident Compensation Act 2001

A group that helped with slow-developing work health problems no longer exists

31: Ministerial advisory panel on work-related gradual process, disease, or infection

Accident Compensation Act 2001

When injuries happened that matter for this part

Accident Compensation Act 2001

When the law says you got hurt at work over time

37: Date on which person is to be regarded as suffering personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC decides if you can get help for certain work injuries

60: Decision on claim for Schedule 2 injury

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How ACC decides if they'll cover your hearing loss from noisy work

61: Decision on claim for noise-induced hearing loss caused by work-related gradual process

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC must tell you their decision about your claim

64: Corporation must give notice of decisions

Accident Compensation Act 2001

What you can get and other important things to know

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Employers must help injured workers return to work

71: Employer's obligations in relation to rehabilitation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC decides if you need a plan to help you recover after an injury

75: Corporation to determine need for rehabilitation plan

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Getting help before and after agreeing on your rehabilitation plan

76: Provision of rehabilitation before and after individual rehabilitation plan agreed

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Figuring out what you need to get better and putting it in a plan

77: Assessment of needs and content of plan

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Helping people get back to work after an accident

80: Purpose of vocational rehabilitation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Help for getting back to work after an accident

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC must help you return to work after an injury

85: Corporation liable to provide vocational rehabilitation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Deciding if you can get help to return to work

86: Matters to be considered in deciding whether to provide vocational rehabilitation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Things ACC thinks about when deciding if you need help to go back to work

87: Further matters to be considered in deciding whether to provide vocational rehabilitation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

You can get help to return to work again if your injury situation changes

88: Vocational rehabilitation may start or resume if circumstances change

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Checking what help you need to return to work after an injury

89: Assessment of claimant's vocational rehabilitation needs

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How the job expert checks what work you can do after getting hurt

91: Conduct of initial occupational assessment

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Assessor writes report about what jobs you might be able to do after your injury

92: Report on initial occupational assessment

Accident Compensation Act 2001

A special doctor checks if you can work after an injury

93: Medical assessor

Accident Compensation Act 2001

What happens if your usual doctor for rehabilitation assessments isn't available

94: Assessments when medical assessor unavailable

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How a doctor checks your injuries and health for ACC

95: Conduct of initial medical assessment

Accident Compensation Act 2001

A doctor writes a report for ACC about your health and ability to work after checking you

96: Report on initial medical assessment

Accident Compensation Act 2001

The employer must pay money to a hurt worker for the first week

Accident Compensation Act 2001

You can get money for the first week you miss work due to an injury at work

97: Employee's right to receive first week compensation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Your boss must pay you for the first week you're off work if you get hurt at work

98: Employer's duty to pay first week compensation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

First week injury pay counts as regular pay for some legal purposes

99: First week compensation is salary or wages for certain purposes

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Money you get each week when you can't work because of an injury

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Getting weekly payments when you can't work due to injury

100: Entitlement to weekly compensation depends on claimant's incapacity for employment and vocational independence

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Rules for deciding if you can work or not

101: Procedures for determining incapacity for employment and vocational independence

Accident Compensation Act 2001

When someone can't work because they got hurt

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How ACC decides if you can work after an injury

102: Procedure in determining incapacity under section 103 or section 105

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC decides if you can work after getting hurt while employed, on parental leave, or donating an organ

103: Corporation to determine incapacity of claimant who, at time of personal injury, was earner, on unpaid parental leave, or recuperating organ donor

Accident Compensation Act 2001

What happens to your weekly payments if ACC decides you can work

104: Effect of determination under section 103 on entitlement to weekly compensation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC decides if certain people can't work due to injury

105: Corporation to determine incapacity of certain claimants who, at time of incapacity, had ceased to be in employment, were potential earners, or had purchased weekly compensation under section 223

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How weekly payments might stop if you're found able to do some work

106: Effect of determination under section 105 on entitlement to weekly compensation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

What someone can do for work after an accident

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC decides if you can work on your own after an injury

107: Corporation to determine vocational independence

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Checking if you can work after an accident

108: Assessment of claimant's vocational independence

Accident Compensation Act 2001

When ACC checks if you can work

109: When claimant's vocational independence to be assessed

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC must tell you in a letter when they want to check if you can work again

110: Notice to claimant in relation to assessment of vocational independence

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How ACC decides if you can work again and what it means for your support

111: How determination that claimant has vocational independence is to be regarded

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Weekly payments stop when ACC says you can work

112: Claimant with vocational independence loses entitlement to weekly compensation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

You can get weekly payments again if you can't work anymore

113: Claimant who no longer has vocational independence regains entitlement to weekly compensation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

No ACC help for some work injuries that happened slowly before 1974 if you got money another way

118: Disentitlement because proceedings brought: personal injury caused by work-related gradual process, disease, or infection

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Basic rules and information

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How to solve problems and make things fair when people don't agree

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Rules that come before the main rules

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How to challenge decisions you don't agree with

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How money is handled and used

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC keeps different accounts for different types of injuries and claims

166: Separate Accounts

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How the work account is managed

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Where the money comes from and goes to for work injuries

167: Application and source of funds

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Employers must pay special money to help with work accidents

168: Employers to pay levies

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Private house helpers must pay money to ACC for work safety

168A: Private domestic workers to pay levies

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Self-employed workers must pay special fees to ACC

168B: Self-employed persons to pay levies

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How much money you pay for work accident insurance

169: Rates of levies

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Rules for calculating self-employed earnings for injury compensation

169A: Limit on offsets in case of earnings as self-employed person

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How ACC groups jobs to set work accident insurance costs

170: Classification of industries or risks

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How we decide what type of worker you are when you do different jobs

171: Classification of self-employed persons and employees engaged in 2 or more activities

Accident Compensation Act 2001

No Work Account levy on wages above a set limit

172: Work Account levy not payable on earnings of employee over specified maximum

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Self-employed people don't pay extra levy on money earned above a set limit

172A: Work Account levy not payable on earnings of self-employed person over specified maximum

Accident Compensation Act 2001

The government guesses how much you might owe for workplace accidents

173: Estimation of levy

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Tell ACC if your employees' earnings change a lot

174: Employer to notify increase or decrease of relevant employee earnings

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Work Account levies can go up if your workplace safety isn't good enough

175: Risk adjustment of Work Account levies

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Using information from other sources in Work Account rules

176: Incorporation by reference

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC must let people see how they check businesses for safety

177: Copy of audit tool and material incorporated by reference to be available to public

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How ACC can raise fees for employers with more worker injuries than usual

178: Criteria for upward adjustment of levies

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How ACC decides if they need to check your workplace safety

179: Process for Corporation to decide whether to require audit

Accident Compensation Act 2001

What happens when your workplace is checked or if you don't let it be checked

180: Effect of audit or refusal to allow audit

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Companies approved to handle worker injury claims

Accident Compensation Act 2001

This section explains the special words used when talking about employers who help ACC

181: Interpretation

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Explaining the goals of rules about employers taking care of injured workers

182: Objectives of sections 181 to 189

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC and employers must make a plan to help injured workers

183: Framework to be established

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Special deals between employers and ACC about paying for worker injuries

184: Accreditation agreements

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Rules for employers to become approved ACC partners for workplace injuries

185: Accreditation requirements

Accident Compensation Act 2001

ACC can become a special employer for its own workers

186: Corporation may be accredited employer

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Approved workplaces must help injured workers

187: Accredited employers to provide entitlements

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Keeping an eye on special employers to make sure they follow the rules

188: Monitoring and audit

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Accredited employers must report to ACC and inform employees about claim processes

189: Reporting and information

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Allowing shareholders who work in their company to buy weekly payments if they get hurt

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Shareholder-employees can buy the right to get paid if they get hurt at work

190: Purchase of weekly compensation by shareholder-employees

Accident Compensation Act 2001

How buying weekly compensation affects your employer's Work Account levy payment

191: Effect on Work Account levy

Accident Compensation Act 2001

Money set aside for old accident claims

Public Service Act 2020

Changes and rules that still apply after the Public Service Act 2020 started

Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions

Public Service Act 2020

Rules for appointing and paying the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners

Schedule 4: Other terms and conditions of appointment of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners

Public Service Act 2020

The boss of the public service must create a plan to help top leaders get better at their jobs.

61: Commissioner must develop and implement leadership strategy

Public Service Act 2020

Picking the best person for a public service job

72: Appointments on merit

Public Service Act 2020

The Commissioner helps make sure everyone has a fair chance to get a job and work in the public service.

74: Commissioner’s functions include promoting, developing, and monitoring equal employment opportunities

Public Service Act 2020

Rules from the Employment Relations Act apply to people working in public service.

Public Service Act 2020

Public service workers are covered by the Employment Relations Act 2000 law.

76: Application of Employment Relations Act 2000 to public service

Public Service Act 2020

Solving problems at work: what to do when you have a dispute with your employer

77: Personal grievances and disputes

Public Service Act 2020

Talking together to agree on work conditions and pay.

Public Service Act 2020

The Commissioner leads talks to create fair work agreements with employees and their unions.

78: Negotiation of collective agreements

Public Service Act 2020

Claims to make sure people get fair pay for the work they do.

Public Service Act 2020

The boss of the public service can pass some jobs to other leaders to help fix unfair pay problems.

84: Delegation of Commissioner’s functions and powers to negotiate pay equity claim

Public Service Act 2020

Rules for other types of work and jobs in public service

Public Service Act 2020

Rules about getting and keeping a government job

Schedule 8: Employment provisions

Public Service Act 2020

No redundancy payment if your job changes under a special transfer rule.

87: No redundancy payment for employee transferred under section 86

Public Service Act 2020

Rules for public service employees working on joint projects with other departments

67: Public service employees: interdepartmental ventures

Public Service Act 2020

Agreements between bosses and unions about employee pay and work conditions

79: Collective agreements

Public Service Act 2020

Government rules can't change your work rights or laws that apply to you.

98: Rights, obligations, etc, not affected by Government Workforce Policy Statement

Public Service Act 2020

What happens when multiple government departments are involved in a pay equity claim

83: Application of section 13K of Equal Pay Act 1972 where more than 1 department or interdepartmental venture involved in pay equity claim

Public Service Act 2020

What happens when you make a claim for fair pay

82: Pay equity claims

Public Service Act 2020

The Commissioner's main job is to help public service agencies work well and be fair.

44: Commissioner’s general functions

Public Service Act 2020

Working somewhere else in the public service for a while to learn new skills or help another team

64: Secondments

Public Service Act 2020

Bosses of government departments must be fair and good to their employees.

73: Chief executive of department and board of an interdepartmental venture to be good employer

Public Service Act 2020

Moving jobs within the government: your rights if your job is transferred to another agency

86: Power to transfer employees between public service agencies

Public Service Act 2020

When you might not get a redundancy payment if you lose your public service job

88: Other restrictions on redundancy payments

Public Service Act 2020

Some rules don't apply if you're moved to a new job or offered a different one.

89: Certain provisions not to apply in relation to transfer or offer of alternative position

Public Service Act 2020

Your job history counts as one continuous period when you move to a new public service job.

91: Employment in public service continuous for purpose of certain enactments

Public Service Act 2020

Public service agencies are not responsible for mistakes made by other agencies about your pay or leave.

92: Liability of public service agencies for remediation in relation to application of section 91

Public Service Act 2020

What happens to your annual holiday pay when you leave your job

93: Further provision in relation to application of section 91 to annual holidays

Public Service Act 2020

Rules for when your job is treated as continuous and how you get holidays

94: Regulations relating to treatment of employment as continuous under section 91

Public Service Act 2020

What the Government's workforce policy is about and what it covers

97: Government workforce policy: content

Public Service Act 2020

What special words mean in the Public Service Act 2020

81: Interpretation

Public Service Act 2020

Commissioner talks to departments about fair pay negotiations.

83A: Commissioner to enter negotiations in consultation with affected department or interdepartmental venture

Public Service Act 2020

Bosses must follow pay fairness agreements made with employees

83B: Pay equity settlement binding on chief executive or board affected

Partnership Law Act 2019

This law's official name is the Partnership Law Act 2019

1: Title

Partnership Law Act 2019

Rules for buying a partner's share when they leave or die

80: Option to purchase share of outgoing or deceased partner

Partnership Law Act 2019

Rules for moving from the old partnership law to the new one

Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions

Privacy Act 2020

Access to personal assessments can be denied if promised confidential

50: Evaluative material as reason for refusing access to personal information

Privacy Act 2020

Who is responsible when employees or agents make mistakes

211: Liability of employers, principals, and agencies

About this project

What is this project?

This project is an experiment to take difficult language, and make it easier to read and understand for everyone.

How do we do this?

What's our process for taking the law and turning it into plain language?

Why is the law written like it is?

Laws are often hard to read. They use a lot of words and language we don't usually use when we talk.

Should we use AI for this?

What are the good and bad sides of using AI?

Is this information the actual law?

We hope that this information will help people understand New Zealand laws. But we think that it's important you talk to someone who understands the law well if you have questions or are worried about something.

You can talk to Community Law or Citizen's Advice Bureau about your rights.

Remember that AI can make mistakes, and just reading the law isn't enough to understand how it could be used in court.