Useful Department of Labour Resources for Employers

Advice

For queries on employment, pay, holidays, leave, health and safety, work life balance and workplace productivity contact the Department of Labour’s free phone on 0800 20 90 20 or email workplace info@dol.govt.nz

For queries on business migration and immigration call the Department of Labour’s immigration call centre free phone on 0508 558 855 (within New Zealand but outside of Auckland) or 09 914 4100 if within Auckland or visit www.immigration.govt.nz

Publications

• An Employer's Guide to Employment Relationships - information and checklists on how to identify and prevent problems in employment relationships
• In Good Faith - Collective bargaining under the Employment Relations Act 2000 -What good faith is? Pitfalls to avoid and practical examples
• How to hire - Recruitment checklist
• An Employer's Guide to Holidays and Leave
• An Approach to Accident Investigation
• Health and Safety Management Systems Assessment
• Health and Safety Systems Audit
• The New Zealand Qualifications Authority unit standards in workplace health and safety
• Approved Courses: Health & Safety in Employment Act are listed on the Employment Relations website
• Health and Safety Forms and Factsheets
• Find out what other businesses are doing in the Workplace Productivity case studies
• Find out how you can introduce Work Life Balance into your business.

Tools

• The Holidays Online Tool makes it easy to work out what pay and leave an employee is entitled to on public holidays and for sick and bereavement leave entitlements
• Job description template
• Personal Profile template
• Create your own employment agreement online
• Letters of appointment templates
• Workplace Needs Self Assesment sheet
• Workplace Partnership Toolkit designed to help managers and trade union partners assess the state of the organisation and their own relationship in order to develop more constructive workplace relationships.
• Problem Solving toolkit – partnership resources for managers and unions
• Work Life Balance - Making it work for your business resource folder
• Workplace Productivity 'Starter' kit – resources to help your business’s productivity
• Workplace Productivity 'starter' questionnaire on www.workplaceproductivity.govt.nz and in paper format in the toolkit