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Employee or independent contractor? At MyHR, we get regularly asked this question and there seems to be some genuine confusion about the differences.

I originally wrote this piece back in May 2020, which seems like a long time ago. Back then, we were emerging from our first lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and were all hopeful that

Updated: 12 February 2024.

The Holidays Act 2003 has been around a good while now, but many New Zealand employers still struggle with public holiday regulations and correctly paying employees.

With another three years of a Labour-led government, we can expect significant changes to employment law that will fundamentally change a number of the established norms in New Zealand employment

Redundancy is a dismissal, so all New Zealand employers need to be prepared for scrutiny of any decision they make to restructure their business and make people redundant.

There’s a vacancy in your organisation. You’ve put an ad online, told all your networks, and the CVs have started rolling in. Next comes the daunting step of working through each Curriculum Vitae to

Bad management, employment issues, and unhealthy company culture can result in big problems for businesses.

Politics can be a tricky and emotional subject. But there's no reason you can't have political discussions in the workplace, so long as you set some clear boundaries.

Political leaders can be, and frequently are, rolled by rivals or replaced by more popular candidates. We've seen plenty of in recent times, but are there any lessons business leaders can learn from