Minimum employment rights
This section provides an overview of the minimum rights and obligations that apply by law to employers and employees.
Employees can’t be asked to agree to less than the minimum rights. An employee is anyone who has agreed to be employed, under a contract of service, to work for some form of payment. This can include wages, salary, commission and piece rates.
- Annual holidays
- Bereavement leave
- Break entitlements
- Employment agreements
- Employment relationship problems
- Equal pay and equal rights
- Fixed-term employees
- Flexible working arrangements
- Health and safety
- Keeping records
- Minimum pay
- Paying wages
- Penalties
- Public holidays
- Leave
- Right to work in NZ
- Trial periods
- Unions
