Sex work in New Zealand
We are taking a proactive approach to ensure employers, facilitators of service and workers in the sex industry understand their rights and legal obligations.
We are taking a proactive approach to ensure employers, facilitators of service and workers in the sex industry understand their rights and legal obligations.
The Government has announced changes to the Equal Pay Act.
This page provides information on the organisations in New Zealand that are involved in supporting our standards and conformance system.
From time to time, we review employment and accident compensation legislation. Our current and past reviews are listed on this page.
This page provides information about international organisations that develop standards and provide coordination for accreditation bodies.
In February 2025, the Government launched Going for Growth, its approach to make the New Zealand economy grow faster, to increase living standards and opportunities for all New Zealanders.
This page provides information about trade barriers and how they arise and where to go for help with trade barriers that are making it difficult to export to a particular market.
This section provides information about consumer research and reports commissioned or undertaken in recent years.
All workers and their families deserve to have confidence that they will return home safe from work, including those in the engineered stone industry and sectors working with materials that contain crystalline silica.
On 20 December 2023, the Fair Pay Agreements legislation was repealed.
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