Minimum employment rights
The Department of Labour website 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
Translations
This information on Minimum Employment rights and obligations is also available in:
- Te Reo Māori [HTML] [PDF 6 pages, 5MB]
- Samoan [HTML] [PDF 8 pages, 90KB]
- Chinese Simplified [HTML] [PDF 6 pages, 529KB]
- Chinese Traditional [HTML] [PDF 6 pages, 490KB]
- Thai [HTML] [PDF 6 pages, 373KB]
- Tongan [HTML] [PDF 8 pages, 85B]
- Tagalog [HTML] [PDF 6 pages, 29KB].
- This information is provided by Department of Labour
Minimum employment rights
