Since it began in 2007, the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Scheme has enabled employers in the horticulture and viticulture sector to recruit an annually capped number of seasonal workers from eligible Pacific Island countries to plant, maintain, harvest, or pack crops.
This page provides information about international organisations that develop standards and provide coordination for accreditation bodies.
The Māori Employment Action Plan is part of the Government’s Employment Strategy.
On behalf of the Minister for ACC, the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment is consulting on the Minister’s proposal to increase the amounts, prescribed by regulation, that ACC is liable to pay towards the cost of rehabilitation. These payment rates apply where ACC does not have contracts with treatment providers, and includes rates for consultations, treatments, imaging and devices.
MBIE consulted on proposed updates to the ACC Hearing Assessment Regulations, which outline the process by which providers must undertake assessments for gradual process hearing assessment claims.
Feedback was sought on a legislative response to modern slavery and worker exploitation, forced labour, people trafficking and slavery.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), with support from Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), is responsible for using this review framework to support, if needed, changes to the list of occupational diseases which can be covered by ACC.
ACC levies are set every 3 years. In any given year, levies are intended to be equivalent to the lifetime cost of rehabilitating those who are injured in that year. This excludes the cost of claims made by non-earners (which are government funded) and investment returns.
This page provides information on the organisations in New Zealand that are involved in supporting our standards and conformance system.
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