Who does what?

**Oakie** · 26th January 2006, 10:11

Originally Posted by buellbabe

Should do mate. I get 4 weeks now cos 1 week is a bonus for long service, I'm looking forward to getting 5 weeks and I have no worries involving the Union if necessary. yee ha

Check out the wording of your agreement. If it says something like "you get an additional week leave for long service" then you should be sweet. If however it says something like "you get a fourth week leave for long service" then you may not necessarily get another week when April next year rolls around.

**MisterD** · 26th January 2006, 10:35

Originally Posted by Oakie

Check out the wording of your agreement.

I think it'll be bloody difficult for any company not to maintain the extra week leave for long service, I'd say it would be highly likely that any tribunal would come down on the side of the employee if you were forced to test it.

Where I'd expect it to be much less clear cut is where you may have, for example, negotiated four weeks leave before starting a job. In this case it'll probably come down to how much they want to keep you sweet.

**Big Chim** · 26th January 2006, 11:27

Originally Posted by MisterD

I think it'll be bloody difficult for any company not to maintain the extra week leave for long service, I'd say it would be highly likely that any tribunal would come down on the side of the employee if you were forced to test it.

Where I'd expect it to be much less clear cut is where you may have, for example, negotiated four weeks leave before starting a job. In this case it'll probably come down to how much they want to keep you sweet.

All depends on the wording of your contract, if its something like you will be entitled to 1 extra week once you have been employeed for xmany years then you will keep your extra week ontop of the change, if not it gets grey, talk to your employer about it, see what there take is on the situation

**MisterD** · 26th January 2006, 11:38

Originally Posted by Road Rash

All depends on the wording of your contract,

That kind of thing is usually in the staff handbook rather than individual contracts, and anyway the senior management will probably set a useful precedent by looking after themselves!

**MisterD** · 26th January 2006, 11:40

Oh and what do I do? According to the Harold, I sell missile systems to the Septics...

**Oakie** · 26th January 2006, 12:03

Originally Posted by Road Rash

All depends on the wording of your contract, if its something like you will be entitled to 1 extra week once you have been employeed for xmany years then you will keep your extra week ontop of the change, if not it gets grey, talk to your employer about it, see what there take is on the situation

Yes, where the word 'extra' or 'additional' is used there'll be no problem. Where '4 weeks' is specified though it will be interesting. Some employers will play ball, others won't be in a position to. In our particular organisation we might have 150 employees already on 4 weeks. An extra week on top for those ones pushing them up to 5 weeks will cost us about $90,000 in one hit. A big multi-national may be in a position to soak that up. We're a non-profit organisation though so avoiding a $90k hit is significant to us. So, different organisations will do things differently.

**Sniper** · 26th January 2006, 12:04

Systems Admin, Rental Car firm.

**MidnightMike** · 26th January 2006, 12:06

Originally Posted by Sniper

Systems Admin, Rental Car firm.

Really?, I thought all you did was post on KB?

**Sniper** · 26th January 2006, 12:08

Originally Posted by MidnightMike

Really?, I thought all you did was post on KB?

Priorities my friend

**chickin** · 26th January 2006, 12:30

Run an office of 600 children ... 550 range from ages 5 to 11 and the other 50 are all over 25 - (they are the hard work !!)

**mstriumph** · 26th January 2006, 23:33

i make a good living
but --------- i no longer define myself by what i do; i think this is one of the more important lessons i came here this time to learn.

**heavenly.talker** · 27th January 2006, 07:39

I contract to MU and NZICOM as an adult education providor. (Lecturing, tutoring, course administration, course design, designing and supporting online teaching components blah blah) My area is in business and commerce related subjects. I also do contracts for SME's (mostly the s not the M's) lol. One of most important tasks this year is to get my Masters finished.

That and the 4 wee little bikes (I bet you thought I was going to say kids or mites) keep us busy. lol

**riffer** · 27th January 2006, 08:55

Production Manager for a newspaper.

But - I accepted a new job yesterday. So in a month I will be running the production studio for NZ's leading direct marketing agency...

and biking 80kms to work each day ... instead of 1.2kms...

yippee - more time on the bike

**T.W.R** · 27th January 2006, 09:22

Originally Posted by Road Rash

All depends on the wording of your contract, if its something like you will be entitled to 1 extra week once you have been employeed for xmany years then you will keep your extra week ontop of the change, if not it gets grey, talk to your employer about it, see what there take is on the situation

the 4th week (20days) holiday which comes into effect 1st april 07 is entitlement to all employees (full-time & part-time) who have completed 12mths employment for the same employer. it can be calculated at either days ( basically for part-timers who work only x amount of days per week) or by the std 5day/40hr working week. it is a consequential entitlement to the employees & the entitlement also allows for the holidays to be no less than 2wks uninterupted. this is also seperate from statutory holiday provisions of 10.4 days average per year

long service entitlements are a seperate entity & are dependant on the employers choices of calculation. an NZEU report says that 93% of employees have contracts that entitle the worker to an additional weeks holiday after a period of service, mostly after 6yrs. and is roughly .8% of total employee costs & .3% of nominal GDP