Latest legislation

In the past, this page provided links to all relevant Acts of Parliament. That facility has now been withdrawn, so HRINZ has linked the following statutes from the NZ Legislation website and the Department of Labour website.

It is essential that HR practitioners have access to the legislation that they must implement in the workplace. This page contains legislation that is relevant to the work of an HR practitioner.

Here is a list of legislative provisions that will impact on the workplace:

For additional information, why not check out our HR Guides.

Please note this page was last updated on 15th May 2009.

Submissions

HRINZ believes as a professional organisation that it is important to make submissions to government and other bodies. This process ensures that the collective voice of members is heard when government is considering new laws that ultimately will be implemented by HR practitioners.

The following submissions have been made by HRINZ:

Date	Title	Body
May 2000	Employment Relations Bill	Employment and Accident Compensation Select Committee
June 2000	Government's Vision for the Tertiary Education Sector	Tertiary Education Advisory Commission
August 2000	Code of Good Faith	Good Faith Bargaining Committee
February 2001	Discussion Paper on the Review of the Health & Safety in Employment Act 1992	Office of the Minister of Labour
September 2001	Draft Transfer Clause	Contracting Out Advisory Group
January 2002	Building Futures (available from HRINZ)	Ministry of Education
February 2002	Parental Leave & Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave) Amendment Bill	Social Services Select Committee
February 2002	Health & Safety in Employment Amendment Bill	Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee
July 2002	Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Bill and the Clean Slate Bill	Justice and Electoral Select Committee
November 2002	Pay Equity	Ministry of Women’s’ Affairs
May 2003	The Holidays Bill and The Holidays (Four Weeks Annual Leave) Amendment Bill	Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee
July 2003	Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave) Amendment Act 2002	Employment Relations Service
September 2003	ACC Levy Rates	Accident Compensation Commission
February 2004	The Employment Relations Law Reform Bill	Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee
February 2006	The Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Bill Amendment (oral presentation given by HRINZ)	Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee
April 2007	Health & Safety in Employment Act 1992 - Defining Serious Harm (available from HRINZ)	Office of the Minister of Labour
April 2008	Employment Relations Act - Restructuring and Redundancy provisions	Public Advisory Group to the Minister of Labour
May 2009	Review of Workplace Health and Safety Strategy	Department of Labour - Review Report of findings available to download- click here
July 2009	Review of the Holiday Act 2003	Department of Labour

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