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22/01/2024

What to do when restructuring your business
Businesses need the right roles and structure to operate at their best. As your business develops and your market changes, the right roles and structure might change too.

Restructuring can be difficult for everyone involved, but it should be easier if you follow the process and act in good faith.

Why restructure
It’s important to regularly check that your business is structured the best way for success. Having the right roles structured the right way means you can meet the needs of your customers and take your business to the next level.

If things have changed and you think a new structure could improve the way your business operates, you might want to investigate restructuring. This doesn’t necessarily mean making employees redundant (though that could happen) but it might mean peoples’ roles change. Please note that employment laws protect some groups of employees in certain restructuring situations.

Restructuring can involve:

adding new roles
merging two or more existing roles
losing roles that are surplus to requirements
a combination of these things.

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18/01/2024

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18/01/2024

90-day trial periods
When: From 23 December 2023

What: All employers in New Zealand, no matter their size, are now able to use 90-day trial periods. Previously, they only applied to employers with fewer than 20 employees. The trial periods are now available to all employers.

Why: Provides employers with greater confidence when hiring new employees.

What you need to do: A trial period must be agreed to by the employer and the employee in writing, and in good faith, before the employee starts work, as part of their employment agreement.

The extension of 90-day trials will not affect other aspects of employment relations, such as the requirement to act in good faith, or worker protections regarding pay, conditions, leave, and health and safety.

If you’re hiring people on certain work visas, you will also need to consider any immigration requirements relating to the use of trial periods.

13/01/2024

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12/01/2024

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