New Zealand Legislation: Acts

8A Wages and time records

• (1) Every employer who employs any worker whose wages or rates of wages are prescribed or paid pursuant to this Act shall keep a record (called the wages and time record) showing, in the case of each such worker,—

  • (a) the name of the worker:

  • (b) the worker's age, if under 20 years of age:

  • (c) the worker's postal address:

  • (d) the kind of work on which the worker is usually employed:

  • (e) the contract of service under which the worker is employed:

  • (f) the classification or designation of the worker according to which the worker is paid:

  • (g) the hours between which the worker is employed on each day, and the days of the worker's employment during each week:

  • (h) the wages paid to the worker each week and the method of calculation:

  • (i) such other particulars as are prescribed.

  (2) Every employer shall, upon request made at any reasonable time by a Labour Inspector, produce forthwith for inspection by that Labour Inspector every wages and time record that is, or at any time during the preceding 6 years was, in use under this Act in respect of any worker employed by that employer at any time in those 6 years.

  (3) Where an employer keeps a wages and time record in accordance with the Employment Relations Act 2000, the employer is not required to keep a wages and time record under this Act in respect of the same matters.

  Section 8A: inserted, on 1 August 1987, by section 5 of the Minimum Wage Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 83).

  Section 8A(1)(e): substituted, on 15 May 1991, by section 5(1) of the Minimum Wage Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 27).

  Section 8A(1)(f): substituted, on 15 May 1991, by section 5(1) of the Minimum Wage Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 27).

  Section 8A(2): amended, on 15 May 1991, by section 5(2)(a) of the Minimum Wage Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 27).

  Section 8A(2): amended, on 15 May 1991, by section 5(2)(b) of the Minimum Wage Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 27).

  Section 8A(3): substituted, on 2 October 2000, by section 240 of the Employment Relations Act 2000 (2000 No 24).