NZ Payroll Community

We have prepared a generic (and short) guide to your leave entitlements, available here: http://www.smoothpaygold.com/public_html/files/blue/man/leave%20entitlements.pdf

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How is it that the largest software company in the world can get things so wrong after all these years? Many of the issues faced at our helpdesk are related directly to insane defaults, bad software and patches and poorly implemented security schemes – all courtesy of Microsoft and charged for by their technical toadies. […]

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Christmas and New Year Holidays and Leave This year’s Christmas and New Year public holidays are a bit tricky as they fall partially on the weekend. The public holidays for Christmas and New Year’s Day fall on a Friday and are observed on the days they fall. That part is easy. Boxing Day and the Day […]

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See the latest stats from the Statistics Department HERE!

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Well it’s the month before Christmas and I’m sure every payroll office is gearing up for the increased work load that this normally entails. For those companies that close down there will be multiple pays to process before going away (note you can only have a Company Anniversary Date for annual leave if your business […]

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The hunt is on for the nation’s most loved payroll clerks, as once again we celebrate the MYOB National Payroll Professional Day. We believe these extraordinary individuals – who ensure New Zealanders get paid, no matter what – deserve recognition for the huge task they undertake. That’s why we are urging all businesses to get […]

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FiveStar staff have been working on adding payroll giving to our payroll “Payroll Pro”. Payroll Giving takes effect from the 7th January 2010.  The scheme provides a tax credit when an employee makes a gift of money to a donee organisation such as a school or charity. The employee will be able to donate money and […]

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MYOB – Our commitment to Payroll Hi MYOB User, We’re still proud to be New Zealand’s first choice as a payroll provider. MYOB helps pay more than a quarter of the country’s employees, and that’s a service we’re very pleased to be working with you to grow throughout the country. Our family of payroll solutions […]

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The Labour Department describes as the ‘Pay-as-you-go‘ method of paying Holiday Pay and there are only two situations when it is permissable. Pay-as-you-go annual holiday pay is where an employee receives their holiday pay (calculated at a minimum of 8% of the gross earnings) added on top of and paid with their regular pay. Under […]

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A common belief by employers, and employees, is that Casual Employees (see definition HERE) are not entitled to Sick Leave as they ‘ do not work 6 months continuously’.  This in fact is not the case as stated HERE by the Department of Labour. Under the Holidays Act 2003 all employees are entitled to a […]

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