[suebeenz]

Hi everyone,

For those of you telecommuting to work for overseas companies as full time employees, have you figured out how to deal with department of labour? Sounds like legally, your employer has to provide all benefits that a local NZ employer would (4 weeks vacay etc etc).

I don't want my employer to have to go through this hassle, just because I'm here. Anybody else have experience here? Sounds like the only time it would become a problem, is if I complain about not getting the NZ benefits, but I'm trying to do everything by the book.

[chocolate cake]

Hi everyone,

For those of you telecommuting to work for overseas companies as full time employees, have you figured out how to deal with department of labour? Sounds like legally, your employer has to provide all benefits that a local NZ employer would (4 weeks vacay etc etc).

I don't want my employer to have to go through this hassle, just because I'm here. Anybody else have experience here? Sounds like the only time it would become a problem, is if I complain about not getting the NZ benefits, but I'm trying to do everything by the book.

No personal experience, but you are probably right which is probably why alot of this type of work is done on a contract not employer/ee basis. That employee rights in NZ are no more beneficial than in other developed countries, UK, Europe, Australia etc, and probably less than most in terms of holidays, working hours etc.