The Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety announced today that from 1 July 2024, parental leave payments will increase.

Changes to ACC’s Accredited Employers Programme (AEP) aim to deliver a better experience for businesses and workers whose work injury claims are handled by the organisation directly, rather than through ACC.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has released its report into the proactive assessment of multi-storey boarding houses.

Retailers are voluntarily recalling unsafe wall-mounted bathroom heaters.

MBIE consulted on proposed updates to the ACC Hearing Assessment Regulations, which outline the process by which providers must undertake assessments for gradual process hearing assessment claims.

The Waikato Regional Workforce Plan sets out the actions for the RSLG. This update covers the actions that are the Group’s current focus.

Spring’s Junction Café and Motor Inn based in South Island, and its director, must pay $36,000 in penalties after breaching multiple minimum employment standards during the pandemic in 2020. The firm was penalised for similar offences in 2016.

On 20 December 2023, the Fair Pay Agreements legislation was repealed.

The NZ Industrial Relations Foundation (Inc) (the Foundation) is an educational trust set up to promote, through education, better industrial relations in New Zealand.