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Unpaid-wage disputes can produce both arrears and penalties. This guide explains wage and time records, deliberate or repeated breaches, and why cashflow pressure does not remove minimum-employment obligations.
How s 150A treats payments made on resolution of an employment problem, including settlements where the employer separately pays an employee's advocate against a defined GST invoice.
Why using unpaid PAYE or rolling GST as business cashflow can become extremely expensive once Inland Revenue interest and penalties accumulate, with particular risk around employer deductions.
How to obtain and use myIR income records as independent evidence of pre- and post-dismissal earnings when calculating wage arrears and lost-remuneration claims.
How Covid-19 wage-subsidy arrangements interacted with wages, hours, leave and restructuring, and why subsidy support did not itself authorise employers to reduce contractual or statutory entitlements.
The strict circumstances in which 8% pay-as-you-go holiday pay can lawfully be used for genuinely intermittent or irregular work and qualifying fixed-term employment.
Top Produce and Bhatia raise a Full Court question about whether New Zealand's Wages Protection Act can reach an employment premium paid outside New Zealand before or in connection with employment here.
After a settlement recorded under s 149, Shearing NZ resisted compliance with payment obligations and pursued confidentiality-related penalties against Ms Mackey and allegations that her advocate had aided or procured a breach. The dispute therefore combined enforcement of the settlement with an attempted expansion of liability to the employee's representative.
