Creating an Individual Employment Agreement
Everyone employed after 2 October 2000 must have a written employment agreement. It can be either an individual or collective agreement.
This Employment Agreement Builder can help you put together a draft employment agreement. It shows you which clauses are compulsory, which clauses reflect minimum conditions that the employee is entitled to regardless of their inclusion in their employment agreement, and which clauses can be included voluntarily to meet the needs of you and your employee.
Employment law also provides for negotiating additional entitlements. The key to this information is use it as a starting point to establish conditions that best suit your particular relationship and situation, and then reflect those conditions clearly in the employment agreement.
This activity only covers a general agreement. We have not included choices for the casual, permanent or fixed-term nature of an agreement. If you need a more comprehensive document we recommend you go the New Zealand Department of Labour’s website www.ers.dol.govt.nz/relationships/ otherwise build your general agreement here.
If you've already got an agreement but you'd like to know more about it, the Department of Labour also created the Employment Agreement Guide. This contains clauses you’re likely to find in a typical agreement, and provides you with common uses, rules and definitions.
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