Employment Relations

Holidays and leave

• Annual holidays
  • Establishing entitlements
  • Payment for annual holidays
  • Employees after completion of 12 months' service
  • Employees during their first year of service
  • Employees who take annual holidays in advance of entitlement
  • Employees taking parental leave
  • On an employee's resignation or termination
  • Employees on genuine fixed-term agreements
  • Moving from fixed-term to permanent employment with the same employer
  • Where the fixed-term agreement is not genuine or exceeds one year
  • Employees with intermittent or irregular work patterns
  • When should annual holiday pay be paid?
  • Regular annual closedowns
  • Unpaid leave on annual holidays
  • Cashing-up annual holidays
  • Employment agreements
• Payment for other holidays and leave
• Public holidays
  • Transferring a public holiday
  • Taking a public holiday
  • Public holidays during a close-down period
  • Payment when employee does not work on a public holiday
  • Payment for working on public holidays
  • Payment where an employee is sick or bereaved on a public holiday
  • Alternative holidays for working public holidays
  • Requirement to work on a public holiday
  • Employment agreements
  • Effect of various work patterns
  • Public holiday dates
    • Current public holidays
    • Future public holidays
    • Past public holiday
  • Shop opening hours
  • Shop trading - Area exemptions
• Sick leave
  • Relationship to ACC entitlements
  • Payment for sick leave
  • Informing the employer and proof of illness
  • Effect of various work patterns
• Bereavement leave
  • Using bereavement leave
  • Payment for bereavement leave
  • Payment where an employee is sick or bereaved on a public holiday
  • Effect of various work patterns
  • Employment agreement
• Parental leave
  • Who can take parental leave
    • Adoptive parents
      • Employee
      • Self-employed
    • Fixed term rights
    • Junior doctors and teachers
  • What paid and unpaid leave is available
  • Parental leave provisions in employment agreements
  • Applying for parental leave and payments
  • Redundancy during pregnancy or leave
  • Employer responsibilities
    • Which employees are eligible
    • Obligations under the parental leave legislation
    • Managing an employee's return to work
    • Problem solving and help
    • Calculate employee's income for
  • Information for JPs and Accountants
  • Self-employed parental leave
    • Who can take parental leave
    • How to apply
      • How to apply - partners/fathers
    • Availablility for self-employed partners or fathers
    • Applying for payment
    • When leave starts
  • Infant feeding at work
  • Returning to work
    • Managing an employee's return to work
  • Resolving issues
  • Taxpayer-funded paid parental leave
  • Paid parental leave calculators
  • Forms and sample letters
• Entitlements on resignation
  • Annual holidays
  • Public holidays
  • Alternative holidays
  • Sick leave and bereavement leave
• Recording requirements
• Managing changes to employment agreements
• Employment relations education leave
• Defence force volunteers
• Resolving problems
• Holidays and leave tool

Tools

• Holidays and leave tool
• Paid parental leave calculator
• Frequently asked questions

Resources

• Holidays and Leave [PDF 32 pages, 622KB]
• Parental leave guide [PDF 692Kb]
• Parental leave - forms
• Parental leave - sample letters for employees
• Parental leave - summary of paid and unpaid parental leave entitlements
• Redundancy support from Work and Income [external site]