About Course
Gain the expertise to navigate New Zealand’s complex payroll legislation with this comprehensive, online self-paced training course, Payroll in Practice: Confidence in Compliance. It is tailored for payroll practitioners, people managers, and small business owners who want to master payroll processes while ensuring compliance with essential laws. From ACC and parental leave to student loans, child support, and payday filing, this module equips you with the knowledge and tools needed to manage payroll accurately and confidently.
Learning Outcome:
- Understand key legislative requirements, including ACC leave, parental leave entitlements, and privacy obligations.
- Master the intricacies of extra pays, bonuses, redundancy payments, and final pay calculations.
- Navigate deductions such as student loans, child support, and attachment orders.
- Learn best practices for payday filing, record-keeping, and payroll reporting.
- Explore special scenarios like working from home arrangements and handling the death of an employee.
Benefits:
- Online - learn at your own pace in your own time
- Six months access - Plenty of time to absorb the knowledge at a pace that suits you - from as little as ½ hr per week.
- Evergreen content - we automatically update the content, so you don't have to
- Know what you didn't know - Fill the gaps in your payroll knowledge
- All levels of knowledge welcome here - Whether you are brand new to payroll, or at a senior payroll level, this training covers it all
If you looking to purchase the NZ Payroll Essentials Training Program, the discounted 3-course program with the weekly live Q&A mentoring, please click here. This is course three of the program.

