FOR

Payroll practitioners who collaborate with HR, engage in HR activities or seek a deeper understanding of HR’s role and its interaction with payroll.

PURPOSE

Human resource activities cover the entire employee lifecycle, from hiring to termination, and they link in various ways to the work we do in payroll. Understanding the core HR areas helps payroll practitioners ask the right questions at the right time, know what and when payroll may be called on to assist HR and explain to HR what payroll needs to pay employees correctly and on time.

This course covers four modules in a day in a condensed format (see below). A comprehensive set of notes will be provided for each module.

DURATION:

• 1 Day

COURSE CONTENT

Module 1:

• Understanding the employee lifecycle from an HR perspective and how that interacts with payroll.
• Employment Legislation Essentials covers a range of employment-related acts that form the framework for the employment relationship and directly or indirectly impact payroll.
• Employment agreement and company policy fundamentals (interpretation, compulsory clauses, writing in plain language), and what’s needed for payroll.

Module 2:

• Recruitment and selection process (the dos and don’ts), as well as what payroll needs from new starters.
• Offer and acceptance.
• Initial documentation required (HR and payroll) and what other internal forms are needed.

Module 3:

• Onboarding (Induction): what should payroll be involved in?
• Communicating payroll information to be proactive.
• Understanding employee remuneration (how wage and salary are determined, remuneration process, wage and salary scales, remuneration surveys).
• Understanding performance management and appraisal process

Module 4:

• Termination of employment (what HR does before payroll actions an employee termination):
  • Resignation (various situations)
  • Redundancy (process)
  • Disciplinary (process and the different types)
  • Poor performance
  • Trial period
  • Retirement
  • Abandonment of employment
  • Not returning from parental leave
  • Long term sickness (Incapacity)
  • Not returning to work from ACC
  • Death of an employee
  • Frustration of contract
  • Employee resignation
• MBIE Investigation (Labour Inspectorate)
• Overview of the process when an employee raises a personal grievance (In the workplace, Mediation, ERA, Employment Court)

LEARNING OUTCOMES (If all three modules are completed):

1. To be able to explain the core lifecycle of an employee in relation to HR and what links it has to payroll.
2. What HR needs from payroll, and what payroll can be expected from HR to aid in paying an employee.

*If more than two are booked, the 2^nd booking onwards also receives 25% off.  To access this special email: [email protected]