Is a change as good as a holiday?

Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden. (Image: NZME)

Fri, 03 Oct 2025

Finally, after all these years, it has happened, almost like a miracle or a mirage in the desert. The outdated, complex, and approaching unworkable Holidays Act 2003 will be repealed and replaced with a new Employment Leave Act, as announced last week by Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden. This has been a very long time coming, and Simpson Grierson has become somewhat of a broken record lobbying for real and meaningful change and a simpler approach, since at least 2014 when we released our first employer surve...

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