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With 8 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 (coronavirus), many New Zealand businesses are currently reviewing or preparing their infectious disease outbreak response plans, as part of their health and safety. Key objectives businesses should cover include: Reducing potential transmission among your employees Identifying people who are at higher risk due
As businesses start to feel the pinch of COVID-19, here are some measures to assist you to adapt your current business practices, take advantage of the Government assistance, and how to consult with your employees if more serious measures are required. As strict self-isolation measures have been instituted, we have
With the changes to the COVID 19 subsidy scheme announced on Friday 27th and subsequent changes we are updating the consultation document to take account for these changes and will be reloading this document in the next couple of days. So please revert back then, we are working on this
Working from home now? Tips for success HRtoolkit Tips to Support your workers to ‘get into the groove’ of working from home. Many workplaces are trialling and preparing work from home arrangements as part of their business continuity planning. However, this move to remote working is happening very quickly, sometimes
Focus on outputs rather than hours For most people setting up a temporary home office arrangement will be, by definition, temporary i.e. working on the kitchen table, in the corner of the lounge etc. They are also likely to have interruptions such as children, students and others who may
With isolation protocols now in place many companies will have had to adjust peoples pay. However, you need to get their written permission to do this. The following template will help you achieve that. We recommend you define what you are basing any 80% assessment on, and recheck if you
Published 2nd April 2020 Free template for staff agreement to pay changes for Isolation period Free webinar on How to pay your staff during isolation – Tuesday 7th April at 10am Executive summary The following guidance is to help you make decisions about how to deal with the isolation period
Free Redundancy and Restructure Webinar Free 12 week Variation Template Free Consultation for full closure of business template We are now nearly 3 weeks into Alert Level 4. The indications are promising that we will be downgraded from Alert Level 4 at some time in the not too far distant
As at the 15th April it is looking hopeful that we will be downgraded from Alert Level 4 at some time in the not too far distant future. However, Level’s 3, 2 and 1 also include restrictions which are liable to impact on your business and your clients. Under level
The guidance remains from the government that it is better to pay staff the subsidy payment, than make people redundant. However, unfortunately, for some businesses the daily rising costs v’s no income will mean that you no long have any options but to make all staff redundant and close the
