Starting employment
Te tīmata i te mahi

Employers and employees (including 'casuals') have important rights and responsibilities towards to each other, including young employees, and where employees work alone or work more than one job.

• Employee rights and responsibilities
• Minimum rights of employees - language translations
• Employer rights and responsibilities
• Good faith
• Fair process
• Good reason
• Record-keeping

There are several types of worker.

• Employee or contractor?
• Permanent or fixed-term
• Apprentices and trainees
• Triangular employment situations
• Volunteers, internships and studentships
• Screen industry workers

Good employment relationships begin with a good hiring process (sometimes called a ‘recruitment’ process). There are a number of steps in hiring a new employee.

• The hiring process
• Hiring your first employee
• Hiring young people
• Hiring temporary migrants
• Employment for disabled people
• Discrimination against transgender people
• Pre-employment trials
• Tests and checks
• Trial and probationary periods
• Employers on stand-down

Employment agreements have the terms and conditions of employment. Every employee must have a written employment agreement.

• Creating an employment agreement
• Collective and individual employment agreements
• Negotiating and accepting as an employee
• Offering and negotiating as an employer
• Restraint of trade