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How to attract great summer staff
If you’re in tourism, retail, hospitality or horticulture, you’ll probably need extra help during the busy summer months ahead. Capture the best and the brightest of the summer talent pool – and stay compliant with employment laws and processes – with these seasonal hiring tips. Know what kind of help you need. Do you need fixed-term employees to work specific shifts all ...
Health and safety: Providing protective gear
If you provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to your workers, here’s how to stay compliant when new laws take effect in April 2016. As part of our ongoing series on the upcoming health and safety (H&S) reforms, this month the focus is on PPE. Before providing PPE, you should first consider if there are better ways of dealing with the risk. Can ...
Help shape your ACC levies
ACC’s annual levy public consultation process begins on 1 October this year, and for the first time features a website where people can submit their own ideas and also comment on proposals put forward by others. Read the full article here: http://www.acc.co.nz/news/WPC138508 ...
Relief for taxpayers affected by the floods in the lower North Island and West Coast
We have the ability to waive the late filing and late payment penalties, and interest to help taxpayers who cannot file and pay on time as a consequence of the recent flooding in the lower North Island and the West Coast. We have activated our income equalisation discretion for farmers. Under this discretion farmers materially affected by the flooding can make ...
Taxpayer will save thousands of trees as paper gets scrapped
Cutting paper use and increasing digital services for Inland Revenue’s customers will see annual paper savings equivalent to 1,900 trees, or nearly 16 million sheets of A4 paper and seven million envelopes. Inland Revenue has recently introduced a new service where correspondence to its customers will be provided electronically in their myIR account as eDocuments. Inland Revenue spokesperson David Udy said the ...