What you must know when you immigrate to New Zealand: How to give sick leave to New Zealand employees?

# New Zealand Immigrants # There is still a difference between introducing sick leave in New Zealand and sick leave for domestic employees. What is the specific situation? Must be your biggest concern in front of the screen. Let's take a look at the common sense of sick leave of New Zealand employees. Welcome to reading.

Common sense of sick leave for New Zealand employees

Everyone knows that New Zealand's employment law stipulates that employees have paid sick leave and annual leave after working for their employers for a period of time, but in fact, many China employees' friends and even employers' friends are a little vague about the specific time of "sick leave", so this article will popularize the simplest sick leave knowledge for New Zealand employees.

As long as an employee who has signed an employment contract has worked for the same employer for six months in a row, he has the right to start getting five days of paidscleeve every year, that is, paidscleeve. If the employer recognizes the sick leave of the employee in the first six months, it can also pay the employee's salary, but the general employment contract in New Zealand (used by most small and medium-sized enterprises) is marked. As an employee, you can work for six months first and get sick within six months, but the employer can not pay for sick leave. After six months, employees can get five paid sick days every 12 months; Some big companies will have more favorable regulations. For example, employees who have worked in a "big company" for more than eight years can take unlimited paid vacations.

Under what circumstances can I call in sick? If the employee is sick or injured, and the employee's spouse (partner) is sick or injured, someone must accompany him. The person who is legally responsible for taking care of employees is sick or injured.

How to ask for sick leave in New Zealand?

Generally speaking, it is mail. Of course, as an employee, as long as you have no problem with your employer, the sooner you ask for sick leave, the better, so that your employer can arrange someone to replace you in advance. If you wake up and find yourself too uncomfortable to go to work, you should ask for leave from your employer in the morning. The way to ask for leave is email or telephone notification. Of course, it is ok to send text messages to employers, but it is not formal. E-mail is the first choice, so that both employers and employees can get electronic file protection, so that they can have evidence to follow when calculating sick leave in the future.

Can an employer refuse to take a day or two sick leave or ask about any illness? Of course not. If the employee meets all the requirements and occasionally asks for a day or two sick leave, the employer cannot refuse. The stationmaster also found that many employers in China especially like to ask "What's the matter?" As we all know, it is impolite to ask this question, which is not in line with western culture, because illness is a particularly private matter; Moreover, even if employers know that employees are pretending to be sick, they must abide by New Zealand's Employment Act and various privacy protection laws, and cannot force employees to tell what is wrong with them. Sick is sick anyway.

What should the employer do if it suspects that the employee is ill-intentioned? The employer may require employees to provide sick leave notes issued by doctors to prove whether employees' illness has affected their normal work, but there is a premise that employees can only ask doctors for sick leave notes if they have been sick for more than three consecutive days; If employees only take sick leave for one or two days, the employer can of course take sick leave. But, but (see clearly), the employer needs to pay the related expenses incurred by sick leave for employees, such as consulting fees, transportation fees and parking fees of GP. Therefore, if the employment relationship is not particularly rigid, the employer will tolerate a day or two of sick leave. Remember that employees in New Zealand have so much power and employers are so weak.

Can sick leave be accumulated?

Of course, the English name is CarryOver. Properly speaking, New Zealand's employment law allows employees to carry over unused annual leave to the next year, the next two years, and so on. If the employee does not take sick leave in the first year, it is no problem to take 10 sick leave in the second year, and the employer must pay it with pay. However, employees cannot ask their employers to "discount" sick leave. For example, I haven't rested for five days this year, and I will call in sick next year. Boss, please help me convert these five days into a week's salary. If the boss agrees, then both parties can do so; If the boss doesn't want to do this, employees can't force the boss to cash out. By the way, paid sick leave can accumulate up to 20 days a year, and no more.