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Month: March 2017

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Employment Law – Addressing The Gender Pay Gap

How do you address the gender pay gap? This is the question the Joint Working Group on Pay Equity Principles (the JWG) had to answer when it was established by the government in 2015. This group consists of government, employer and union representatives and was tasked with recommending equal pay principles for government consideration. The...
Written by: Shima Grice
Categories: Corporate / Commercial | Law Changes | SMEs (Small to Medium Businesses) | Topical issues

Immigration – New Visa To Attract Investors And Entrepreneurs To New Zealand

A new visa called the Global Impact Visa ("GIV") aims to attract highly talented, successful and well connected entrepreneurs to establish ventures in New Zealand. The key benefit of the GIV is that it offers flexibility to attract innovative global entrepreneurs, investors and start up teams who are not covered under the existing investor and...
Written by: Paul Milne
Categories: Topical issues

Growing Pains

Those resistant to change are losing, and the free market economy is winning. The Bay of Plenty seems to be groaning under the weight, and the tension is visible; speeding drivers, traffic jams and accidents, trucks and machines everywhere, committees to talk about smart growth. We're growing rapidly and people want to join us. Those...
Written by: Hamish Murray
Categories: SMEs (Small to Medium Businesses)

Immigration Law – Guardian Visas

What is a Guardian Visa? A Guardian Visa or 陪读签证 is a special multiple entry visitor visa category for the legal guardians of young foreign fee paying students. This visa category allows for one legal guardian per family to accompany the student visa holders of that family to New Zealand and to care for them...
Written by: Lauren Qiu
Categories: Topical issues
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