Employment Relations

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• Productivity
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    • Encouraging innovation and the use of technology
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    • Measuring what matters
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    • Full list of case studies
  • Workplace productivity in the State Services
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    • High performance workplace practices in APEC economies
    • Why workplaces matter
    • Food & beverage service sector productivity study
    • Employers survey executive summary
    • Employees survey executive summary
  • Policy reports
    • The workplace productivity challenge
    • Workpace productivity workshop summary of proceedings
  • Tools and resources
    • The workplace starter kit
    • Productivity Snapshot
    • Making it work - who can help
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  • What is partnership?
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  • Our projects
    • Kiwirail and the RMTU
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    • C3, RMTU and MUNZ
  • Training
    • Joint problem-solving
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    • Constructive engagement
  • Start-up guide to successful workplace partnership
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  • Useful links
• Pay and employment equity
• Work-life balance
  • Benefits of Work-life balance
  • Flexible work
    • The Flex Act
    • Flexible working arrangements - definitions
  • Flexible working arrangements - A guide for employees and employers
    • Make a request
    • Receive a request
    • Consider a request
    • Approve a request
    • Decline a request
    • Unresolved requests
    • Definitions
    • Form A Request flexible working arrangements
    • Form B Approve request
    • Form C Decline request
  • Making it work for your business
    • Get management support
    • Find out about what's happening now
    • Identify the possible solutions
    • Implement the strategy
    • Measuring and maintaining progress
    • Survey tool
  • Practical ideas for small businesses
    • Getting started
    • Making it work
    • Lessons learnt
  • Case studies
  • Factsheets
  • Research
  • Resources from other NZ agencies
  • Resources from overseas

Tools

• Frequently asked questions
• Holidays and leave tool
• Employment agreement builder
• Paid parental leave calculator
• Employment law database
• VisaView - employer online service

Best practice
resources

• Making flexibility work - practical ideas for small businesses
• Skills Highway
• Productivity snapshot tool
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Related information

• Watch the case studies on youtube

Contact us

• Email the HPWI Team
• Department of Labour
  High Performance Working Initiative
  PO Box 3705
  WELLINGTON
  Ph: +64 4 915 6259