On time, every time.

An effective payroll system needs to pay employees correctly and on time, while meeting all your legal pay and leave obligations. The system has to ensure any tax or other deductions are made, and record the number of hours an employee worked and the pay for those hours, as well as holiday and leave balances.

MyHR integrates with several payroll providers to ensure you’re paying your people correctly and on time, providing time-saving features for your payroll admin and reducing the number of systems your employees need to access.

Leave management systems track and record employee time-off, from requesting and approving leave to providing accurate leave balances and matching leave with payroll. MyHR seamlessly displays an employee’s available leave, giving them and their managers clear visibility when leave requests are made. A good modern leave management system should be digital and cloud-based with minimal manual processing and easy integration, so employees and managers can check and control leave and requests for time-off, and ensure the company’s leave processes are legally compliant.

An integrated payroll and leave management system eliminates manual processing of leave and payroll data, reduces paperwork, increases transparency, and, in most cases, makes both processes quicker, more accurate, and more cost-effective.

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New Zealand employees are legally entitled to:

• Annual leave: 4 weeks paid leave a year (per each period of 12 months of continuous employment)
  • Employees on a fixed-term agreement of less than 12 months or on a casual employment agreement can be paid 8% of holiday pay on top of their gross earnings instead of accruing leave
  • No cap on accrual
• Public holidays: up to 12 holidays each year, if they are days they would normally work
• Sick leave: All employees (including part-time and casual employees) are entitled to 10 days paid sick leave per 12 months of continuous employment if:
  • They have six months current continuous employment with the same Employer, or
  • They have worked for the employer for six months, for an average of 10 hours per week, and
  • > at least one hour in every week
  • > or 40 hours in every month
  • Can limit accrual to 20 days
• Bereavement leave: after six months of continuous service, an employee is entitled to three days of paid bereavement leave (for a close family member) or one day of paid bereavement leave (for another person).
• Parental leave: up to 12 months of paid (26 weeks) and unpaid (26 weeks) leave, depending on specific eligibility criteria, which can be split between parents.
  • Primary carer leave - up to 26 weeks paid for a primary carer
  • Partner’s leave - up to 2 weeks unpaid leave for the partner of the primary carer
  • Extended leave - up to 26 weeks unpaid for a primary carer
  • Special leave - 10 days unpaid leave for the pregnant parent
  • Negotiated carer leave - case-by-case, managed between employee and employer
• Family violence leave: up to 10 days’ paid leave after 6 months continuous employment.

On top of this, employees can apply for unpaid leave for any reason, but it’s up to the employer to agree to it.

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There are several ways you can prevent employees from abusing sick leave. You can legally request proof that an employee is sick or injured and unable to work once they have been on sick leave for three or more consecutive days, or for one day if they are using sick leave that’s carried over from a previous year.

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