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Learn the whole business

People.

Your first hire and the ones after it: employment agreements, payroll, leave, trial periods and keeping good people.

About this shelf

Hiring, contracts and keeping staff.

What does the People shelf cover?

Hiring and managing staff in New Zealand: written employment agreements, registering as an employer, payroll and KiwiSaver, holidays and leave, trial periods, and when someone is a contractor rather than an employee.

Where do the rules come from?

Mostly Employment New Zealand and Inland Revenue. Each episode lists the official pages it relies on, and the date we last checked them.

New people guides, by 6am.

The free brief, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Each new episode lands there first.

Kev, the MySMB cardboard kiwi, reading the brief with a flat white at his feet