Negotiation tips when hiring
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Supporting a return to work after illness or injury
Sometimes employees need time off because they’re unwell or must deal with a range of life situations. Here’s how you can support them during that time.
Make your next hire a new graduate
Graduates compete for good jobs, and employers compete for good candidates. It helps to understand their needs and what they’re looking for in a job.
Personal information: What it is and how to protect it
Privacy laws are changing. This may affect information you collect about staff and/or customers. Check what information your business can and can’t ask for.
Bonuses and tax: How to get it right
Thinking of rewarding a star player? Here’s a step-by-step guide to working out the PAYE tax on lump sum payments, plus other deductions you may need to make.
Accommodation for workers: what you need to know
By law, anyone working for you in return for food or accommodation is most likely an employee. You may also be their landlord.
How a flexible workforce helps your business
Having a flexible workforce has benefits both for employees, and for your business. Here’s why these arrangements make good business sense.
Claiming expenses on business trips
You can claim the cost of many daily expenses when travelling for work. If the trip is part business, part holiday, you can only claim work-related expenses.
Retail crime: Simple ways to reduce your risk
Hi-tech cameras and round-the-clock guards are beyond the reach of many shop owners. Here are ways you and any staff can protect your business and stay safe.
Hiring: Contractors vs employees
If you’re an employer, it pays to understand the different obligations you have to employees and to contractors — there are costs to getting things wrong.
How to fight workplace fatigue
Being tired on the job is a health and safety issue many businesses have to grapple with, says a world authority on worker fatigue.
April 2016 wage hike
The adult minimum wage is now $15.25 an hour. If you pay your workers minimum wage rates, you’ll need to update your payroll and their records.
Free recruiting tool brings world’s workers to NZ
If you’re a small business unable to find the skills you need in New Zealand, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has a free online tool.
Build easy, legal staff contracts
Our new online tool has all you need to create legal employment agreements — and in plain English.
Six ways to fine-tune your payroll
Whether you have a staff of hundreds or just hired your first employee, these tips from MYOB can help make it easier to pay your workers.
Employee theft: How to prevent it
Theft at work does happen, and you’d be naïve to think you’ll never fall victim. Take steps to avoid it — and learn how to investigate fairly.
Casual workers: Filling gaps at short notice
With the summer holidays approaching, now is the time to think about how you’ll fill staffing gaps quickly. Casual employees could be the answer.
Special tax codes and deduction rates: What to do
Do you make PAYE or student loan deductions that aren’t at the standard rate? Here are some tips from Inland Revenue. Read on…
Tax on Christmas parties and presents
Bring out the crackers! It’s almost time to plan the staff Christmas party, so what are the tax considerations? Read on…
Fringe benefit tax: Private use of vehicles
If you allow your employees to use work vehicles for personal use, you are liable for fringe benefit tax (FBT).