Holidays Act - Practical Guide
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Holiday legislation has proven challenging, often leading to costly mistakes for employers.
This live virtual course provides you practical guidance on managing and administering staff holiday and leave entitlements under the Holidays Act 2003.
Presented by an employment lawyer and payroll consultant, this course will help you overcome common and complex challenges, so you can administer and oversee payroll with confidence.
Learn to calculate holiday and leave calculations with confidence, including for staff on fixed or variable hours.
Course format
Holidays Act: A Practical Guide is a 6.5 hour virtual course, facilitated online.
This engaging and practical course, co-presented by a payroll consultant and employment lawyer, offers expert insights and real-world applications to give you a comprehensive understanding of payroll.
Through interactive activities, case studies, and discussions, this course offers hands-on learning for administering payroll. The workbook includes practical exercises and an overview of legislation so you can apply your knowledge with confidence.
Presenter information
As director of KiwiBoss, employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass develops leaders to improve their communication and management skills. Julia is a practical and engaging presenter with expertise in training technical professionals on report writing. She focuses on training that creates high-performing workplaces. A published writer, she has written feature articles for NZLawyer and is an employment columnist for the NZ Herald.
Holiday and Leave Entitlements 2024
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Ensure your staff receive the correct holiday and leave entitlements this festive season! Join us for a comprehensive refresher on the Holidays Act 2003, covering the latest legislative updates and case law insights.
Christmas and New Year’s Day are fast approaching, so make sure your staff receive the correct holiday and leave entitlements this festive season.
Avoid payroll mistakes that could lead to underpayment. Join us for a refresher on the Holidays Act 2003 to comply with the law when managing public holiday and annual leave entitlements.
Led by employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass, this webinar is designed for people managers, payroll teams, and professional advisors. We’ll focus on compliance with the latest legislative updates and case law insights to guide you.
Topics covered include:
- What are your obligations before business closedown periods?
- How do you accurately calculate annual leave entitlements in payroll?
- What happens if an employee is sick or has a bereavement during their holidays?
- What is the case law on determining "otherwise a working day" for public holiday entitlements?
- How can you reduce annual leave liability?
- How does case law define gross earnings, including discretionary payments?
- How can you calculate ordinary weekly pay for annual holiday entitlements?
- What’s the process for paying staff annual leave during closedown?
- What happens if a staff member is on call during public holidays?
- What are staff entitlements during public holidays?
Learn how recent case law impacts the interpretation of the Holidays Act 2003 and how to manage your employees' entitlements effectively.
Don't miss out—ensure you’re prepared for the holiday season!
Restructuring and Redundancy
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This half-day course will help you navigate a restructuring process with full understanding of your legal responsibilities.
As New Zealand’s economic challenges intensify, many employers are now facing difficult restructuring decisions that may lead to redundancies.
This half-day course provides a step-by-step guide to starting a restructure and following a proper process that meets your legal obligations.
Course Overview
This half-day course provides a step-by-step guide to starting a restructure and following a proper process that meets your legal obligations.
Our employment lawyer will answer questions like: What constitutes “genuine reasons” for restructuring and redundancy decisions? What else should you consider being implementing a restructuring proposal?
Consider relevant case law decisions and current issues relating to the economic downturn and genuine reasons for redundancy.
Learn how to follow a restructuring process to comply with your legal responsibilities.
We will take you through the necessary steps to restructure your business, including considering options like redeployment. Discover how to help staff affected by restructuring, such as through career transitioning.
Presenting with Impact
Speak with confidence to engage and persuade a variety of audiences. This interactive course will increase your self-confidence and influence your clients and colleagues.
Presentation skills are a powerful tool for client engagement, connecting with colleagues and winning work. Confidence is necessary for influencing and persuading your audience internally as well as outside your organisation.
In this course, participants will explore techniques to deliver effective presentations in team meetings, client briefs and seminars. Through discussion and practical exercises, course participants will consider how to connect with their audience and create a clear call to action.
Presenter Information
As director of KiwiBoss, employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass develops leaders to improve their communication and management skills. Julia has coached senior leaders in public speaking and facilitated workshops on presentation skills for professionals throughout New Zealand. She is a practical and engaging presenter with expertise in training professionals to create high-performing workplaces. Julia is an employment columnist for the NZ Herald.
Persuasive Public Speaking
Do you want to speak with confidence and influence others?
Public speaking is an essential component of seeking sales and improving revenue. Confidence is necessary to persuade your audience, internally as well as to a broader audience outside your organisation.
In this one-day course, sharpen your public speaking skills through practice, and your ability to persuade an audience.
Performance Management and Disciplinary Issues
Performance management and disciplinary issues are the most common causes for personal grievance action at the Employment Relations Authority.
Reduce your risk and grow confidence in managing staff misconduct and poor performance.
Find out how to lawfully conduct the performance management and disciplinary processes and meet employer obligations.
Ensuring employees understand what is expected of them will enhance their contribution to your organisation.
Dealing with misconduct the right way will reduce your risk of personal grievance action and avoid breaching your good faith requirements.
Patient Code of Rights
This interactive course provides an effective overview of patient rights.
Find out how to comply with the Code of Patient Rights, manage complaints and discuss practical case studies.
Negotiating Exits For Problem Employees
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Perhaps your staff member is the wrong fit for the job, a poor performer, bully, or damaging your company’s reputation.
Most employers will need to exit employees at some stage but are unsure how to do it properly. Many employers avoid negotiating exits for fear facing a personal grievance.
In this course, find out how to and manage the exit of problem employees with less stress, by negotiating an exit settlement.
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive guide for HR and managers to exiting problem employees through negotiation or mediation.
Our employment lawyer will discuss why you should consider exit settlements for problem employees, with guidance on how to reduce the risk of a personal grievance.
Participants will find out how to prepare for negotiation and mediation and conduct a risk assessment of both parties’ positions.
We will focus on how to resolve matters by way of a record of settlement for a successful outcome. Consider terms of settlement that protect your company and ensure the exit agreement is full and final.
This course gives practical guidance to address issues that commonly arise during negotiation and mediation.
Consider practical ways to protect confidential information, company property, and reputation when a problem employee leaves your organisation.
What To Expect
Join employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass on this virtual half day course. We will explore case law and case studies to show you how to properly exit problem employees.
Concepts and case law will be introduced by the presenter and applied through case studies and discussion. Attendees will receive a digital workbook including activities and can ask questions virtually during the live seminar. This course involves Q&A and activities for you to discuss in small groups.
This course complements our Managing Poor Performers course which focuses on the performance review process.
Managing Poor Performers
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Poorly performing employees may consistently make mistakes, miss deadlines, or lack the appropriate skills to properly perform their jobs.
Most Kiwi employers will have poor performers at some stage but avoid performance management for fear of getting the process wrong.
This practical course will guide you through performance management processes, helping you stay compliant and improve productivity.
Course Overview
This live and virtual course is a comprehensive overview of the performance management framework.
Delays in performance management affect team performance and productivity. Managers fed up with poor performers may dismiss them without proper process, causing costly unfair dismissals.
Find out how to avoid poor performance in the first place, and informally address performance issues through coaching staff and feedback for improved performance.
Identify your employment law obligations to comply with the law. This course is practical and designed to assist you in writing performance improvement plans and attending performance management meetings.
We will discuss practical options for continued non-performance, including performance improvement plans and issuing graduated warnings to dismissal.
What To Expect
Our employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass will help you meet your legal obligations on performance management to reduce the risk of personal grievances. Participants will explore case law and case studies to help you deal with performance issues.
Attendees will receive a digital workbook that provides a comprehensive guide to managing poor performers. This course includes activities for you to discuss in small groups.
All personal development events are subject to HRNZ Terms and Conditions.
Testimonials
“It was a great course. Very informative and well organised. The presenter was brilliant. She was engaging and supportive. It was evident that the presenter’s aim was to give us all a great experience due to her willingness to leave no question unanswered. I was reluctant to attend a Zoom training course at first but it surpassed my expectations by far.” Amanda, Human Resources Advisor
“Really enjoyed it! A good level of interactive content and lecturing.” Renee, Employee Experience Assistant
“I found this course very valuable and I enjoyed the breakout sessions very much - it really helps to have these interactive types of learning.” – Kayla, Corporate Services
Interviewing Skills and Selecting Talent
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Do you want to hire the right candidate for your organisation? Are your interviews failing to produce enough reliable information to pick the right person?
Selecting staff with the right skills, knowledge, and attitude is important for building the best and brightest teams.
Explore how to select the right staff in this HR and manager’s guide to interviewing skills and selection.
Course Overview
This virtual course explores how to assess a candidate’s suitability for a role, with a focus on interviewing skills in person, by phone, or online.
Participants will practise asking the right questions to deduct a candidate’s skill level and assess attitudes and values. Identify three types of interview questions - situational, competency-based and behavioural questions.
Use competency mapping to identify the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed for the role, and establish a process to validate your selection decision.
Research shows that interviews are often no more reliable than tossing a coin. Find out how to identify and manage unconscious biases, which can lead to the wrong hiring decisions. Detect possible deception and toxic behaviours in interviews and reference checking.
Explore other reliable selection methods – ask the candidate to perform tasks or engage in a pre-employment trial.
Our employment lawyer presenter will show you to comply with the law when conducting pre-employment checks. Avoid costly mistakes that can lead to unlawful discrimination and privacy breaches.
What To Expect
This virtual course is an interactive seminar with Q&A and case scenarios. Attending this course will give you a comprehensive overview on how to select talent and improve your interviewing skills.
Concepts and theories will be explained by your presenter Julia Shallcrass, then applied in case scenarios and group activities. Attendees can ask questions in our Q&A and connect with other attendees in activities. Attendees will receive a digital workbook, which sets out activities and guidance on selection processes and interviewing techniques.