Improving Flexible Working
Improve the way flexible working arrangements are working in your business. Reap the benefits of flexible working arrangements, including employee experience, improved productivity, and diversity.
This course identifies different types of flexible working for your company, including part time, remote working, and job sharing.
In this practical course, find out how to improve the way you manage flexible working arrangements in your organisation. Discover how to engage with staff about flexible working arrangements, and manage the challenges that arise with flexible working.
Despite the benefits, flexible working arrangements have proven challenging for workers and employers alike. Many workers struggled during the lockdowns, with technology issues and a lack of support and collaboration with colleagues.
We will explore successful case studies of distributed workforces and remote working arrangements in NZ and overseas.
There will also be opportunities for attendees to share their own experiences on managing remote workers.
Holidays Act, Parental Leave and Payroll
This course will help you manage staff entitlements under Holidays Act 2003 and the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987.
Many employers are confused as to how to comply with holiday and parental leave legislation. This practical course will help you identify common and complex issues of non-compliance under the Holidays Act, and provide you with options to manage these issues.
This course will help you calculate annual holidays to comply with the Holidays Act 2003. Identify the two calculations for annual holiday pay: average weekly earnings and ordinary weekly pay. Consider how to budget for and schedule annual holidays, such as through closedowns.
We will practise calculating annual holiday pay for permanent staff on both fixed and variable hours, including at the end of employment. Identify when you must include commission and bonuses in gross earnings. Find out how to pay casual and fixed term employees Pay As You Go.
Find out your staff minimum entitlements for “BAPS” leave: bereavement, sick leave, alternative holidays, family violence leave, and sick leave. We will answer questions like, what is otherwise a working day for an employee? How can you ask for proof of sick leave?
Our course engages participants through innovative and fun practical activities for compliance with holiday and parental leave legislation.
We will consider case studies to discuss complex issues regarding payroll. The workbook includes activities, case law and an overview of legislation.
This course focuses on minimum entitlements, rather than additional entitlements provided by collective agreements.
Holidays and Leave Entitlements
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If you manage staff leave entitlements or oversee the payroll in your organisation, this is your guide to the Holidays Act 2003.
Many New Zealand employers struggle with calculating holiday and leave entitlements, resulting in billions of dollars in underpayments.
Avoid repayments and penalties for payroll blunders by paying your employees correctly every time they take paid leave.
Course Overview
If you manage staff leave entitlements or oversee the payroll in your organisation, this is your guide to the Holidays Act 2003.
Co-presented by an Employment Lawyer and Payroll Specialist, this practical course provides a comprehensive overview of holidays and leave entitlements.
Participants will gain an understanding of how to comply with Holidays Act 2003 to be a best practice employer.
Find out how to manage entitlements, including annual and public holidays, sick leave, family violence leave, bereavement leave, and alternative holidays.
Our Employment Lawyer will discuss how to manage staff requests for leave. Explore ways to budget for annual holidays to reduce leave liability.
Our Payroll Specialist will show you how to correctly calculate annual holidays and public holidays. Avoid payroll blunders with 5 tips for managing common payroll issues.
Participants will have questions answered, and will find out: How do you calculate holiday pay for employees with variable earnings? What qualifies as an ‘otherwise a working day’ for public holidays? When can you use the ‘Pay as You Go’ option for holiday pay?
This course gives guidance on best practice, including case law updates, on calculating annual holidays for employees earning commission.
We will give an overview of the Holidays Act reform, so you can prepare for the upcoming overhaul of the Holidays Act.
What To Expect
This virtual course is an interactive seminar with questions and answers and case scenarios.
Join Employment Lawyer Julia Shallcrass and Payroll Specialist Kerryn Douglas on this live and virtual half day course. Concepts and case law will be introduced and explained, then applied through scenarios and discussions, so you can confidently manage staff requests and comply with holidays legislation.
Attendees will receive a digital workbook with activities and guidance on holidays legislation. Attendees can ask questions in our Q&A and connect with other attendees in group activities.
Hiring and Recruitment
Do you want to hire the right candidate for your organisation?
Finding and hiring the right people is important as we compete for the best and brightest workers.
This one-day course is an introduction into the topics of recruitment, selection, and hiring of staff.
We will explore how to ask the right questions, practise interview techniques, and discover the most reliable ways to select the right staff for your organisation. Become aware of unconscious biases in your hiring decisions and avoid discrimination claims.
This course focuses on meeting the practical and legal requirements of recruitment and selection processes.
Health Information Privacy
Find out how to manage clients’ health information. In this course, we will focus on the Health Information Privacy Code, and how this relates to your patient information.
This half day course provides an effective overview of issues relating to health information. Find out how to improve the collection, use, storage and transmission of your clients’ health information.
Essential Human Resources
If you have HR responsibilities, this is your essential guide to lawfully managing people.
This practical course sets out the key components of Human Resources within employment law in New Zealand. Become more confident in dealing with common staffing issues.
Find out how to effectively recruit and select staff. Discover how to on-board staff for greater retention. Learn techniques that will help you deal with non-performance. Pay staff fairly and equitably.
This course covers the essential requirements of recruitment, induction, training, performance management, pay, and termination of employment.
Engaging a Multi-Generational Workforce
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Engage and motivate staff from different generations. Manage the challenges and reap the benefits of working with millennials through to mature workers.
This virtual half-day course sets out strategies to engage and motivate a multi-generational workforce and overcome the challenges of generational diversity.
Find out how you can manage opportunities and overcome the challenges of generational diversity – including exceptionally high levels of staff over 60 and the struggle to retain younger workers.
In this course, participants will recognise the need to retain and value our mature workforce and millennials, or else face a decreased labour supply and a skill shortage.
Course Overview
If you are facing challenges managing or motivating a multi-generational workforce, this course is your guide to effectively engage different generations at work.
In this course, participants will identify and compare key characteristics of the five different generations in the workplace.
Find out how to motivate, retain and value our mature workforce and millennials, or else face a decreased labour supply and a skill shortage.
Through discussion and case scenarios, course participants will explore how to manage the challenge of generational diversity in your workplace for better working relationships and productivity.
What To Expect
This virtual course is an interactive seminar with questions and answers and case scenarios.
Join Employment Lawyer and HR facilitator Julia Shallcrass on this live and virtual half day course. Concepts and theories will be introduced and explained, then applied through scenarios and discussions.
Attendees will receive a digital workbook with activities and guidance on engaging a multi-generational workforce. Attendees can ask questions in our Q&A and connect with other attendees in polls and group activities.
Effective HR Communication
Effective HR communication is an essential part of business and the role of HR, and is vital for success in business, as it affects organisational performance.
Effective internal communication is important for developing trust, and impacts greatly on employee engagement and productivity.
In this one day course, find out how to connect staff to strategy and values through effective communication. Discover how to build employee engagement through trust and two-way dialogue, including through social media.
Consider how roles, culture, and personality types influence communication preferences. Discover how to reduce the impact of unconscious biases in recruitment and promotions.
Learn how to connect with various HR stakeholders including management and governance so you can influence decision making.
Build an effective internal communications strategy for your organisation by writing a strategy based on a workplace issue.
Practise giving feedback on staff performance, and interviewing job candidates. Participants will receive a workbook to practise their communication skills.
Create Positive Culture and Manage Conflict
Do you want to create a positive culture and overcome conflict?
In this practical course, find out how to create a positive workplace culture. Improve performance and productivity by changing your workplace culture.
Discover how to identify conflict before it stifles performance, or escalates to bullying and harassment, which are major problems in New Zealand.
Develop skills and strategies so you can reduce negativity and staff turnover.
Advanced Human Resources
Productivity in the workplace is important for increased profit and success.
Find out how to improve workplace productivity through employee engagement and other factors in the workplace. This engaging course examines current issues affecting HR professionals in New Zealand. Discover how to manage flexible working arrangements, staff engagement, and diversity challenges.
This course is designed to improve staff performance, profit, and productivity. We will explore how to adapt modern workplace practices, such as employee wellbeing, flexible working, and the use of technology, to your business.
Find out how to develop good HR practice that aligns with the law and grow and retain your staff for organisational results. The course will promote questions, in-depth discussion, and an action plan.