{"id":43003,"date":"2023-08-09T10:52:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=43003"},"modified":"2023-10-19T10:25:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T10:25:54","slug":"minimum-pay-and-sick-leave-have-increased-for-recognised-seasonal-employer-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/minimum-pay-and-sick-leave-have-increased-for-recognised-seasonal-employer-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Pay and Sick Leave have Increased for Recognised Seasonal Employer workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Immigration New Zealand has confirmed an increase in the minimum pay and a new sick leave entitlement for Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) workers that will come into effect from 1 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ed7d31;\"><strong>RSE worker pay increase<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From 1 October 2023 employers must pay their RSE workers the minimum wage (currently $22.70) plus 10%. This means at the current minimum wage, RSE workers must be paid at least $24.97 per hour for actual hours worked.<\/p>\n<p>The pay increase applies to all RSE workers from 1 October 2023, including those granted RSE limited visas prior to that date.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ed7d31;\">Paid sick leave adjusted<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RSE workers are currently entitled to sick leave after they have worked for six months, however,<\/p>\n<p>most RSE workers can only stay in New Zealand for up to seven months during any 11-month period, so they largely miss out on sick leave.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 October, RSE workers granted an RSE Limited Visa will receive a new sick leave entitlement giving them paid sick leave from their first day on the job.<\/p>\n<p>They will receive 10 days paid sick leave \u2013 two days when they start work, and an additional two days each month until they reach their 10-day entitlement on their four-month anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>If a worker transfers from one RSE employer to another, the new employment agreement must also comply with these pay and sick leave requirements.<\/p>\n<p>This change does not apply to RSE Limited Visas granted before 1 October.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For any questions regarding this update or any further immigration matters, please contact Arno Nothnagel, our NZ Immigration Director, <a href=\"mailto:Arno.Nothnagel@absoluteimmigration.com\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1 October 2023, an increase in the minimum pay and a new sick leave entitlement for Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) workers will come into effect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[150,151,152],"class_list":["post-43003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand","tag-recognised-seasonal-employer-workers","tag-rse","tag-rse-scheme"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}