Monday, 26 July, 2010 | Tagged in Running Your Own Business | Written by Crackerjacks
Says Andy McCormack
People contract in the workforce for a number of reasons. Some are ‘Professional Career Contractors’ whilst others are ‘in between jobs’, whilst some others are looking at contract work as being a career development move. Over the last 18 months the increase in contractors looking for work in the market has increased significantly [...]
Friday, 23 July, 2010 | Tagged in Running Your Own Business | Written by Crackerjacks
The Department of Labour has recently launched a new web resource called Infozone: Business Essentials. This is a resource that provides simple straight forward employment relations and health & safety information for business owners and self employed people. It tells you what you need to know, what steps to put in place and then provides [...]
Wednesday, 14 July, 2010 | Tagged in Running Your Own Business | Written by Crackerjacks
As a contractor in New Zealand, it’s important to understand how our Health & Safety legislation effects you. In this article provided by the Department of Labour, Health & Safety guidelines are outlined for businesses or people who engage contractors…
Businesses that contract people or other businesses to do work for them have duties as a [...]
Wednesday, 14 July, 2010 | Tagged in Rates, Running Your Own Business | Written by Crackerjacks
The recent Court of Appeal ruling in the Penny and Hooper case last month has provided a useful lesson for contractors in NZ.
Inland Revenue has also provided some guidance on how they intend to apply this case in the Revenue Alert “Diverting personal services income by structuring revenue earning activities through an associated entity [...]
Wednesday, 7 July, 2010 | Tagged in Running Your Own Business | Written by Crackerjacks
The recent land mark Court of Appeal ruling in the Penny and Hooper case has raised alarms within professional circles and amongst small business owners. The case involved two Christchurch orthopedic surgeons who previously operated their practices as sole traders.
However, around the time when the top personal tax rate was raised to 39%, Mr [...]
Wednesday, 23 June, 2010 | Tagged in Running Your Own Business | Written by Crackerjacks
Says Andy McCormack – a qualified Counsellor and Life/Career Coach.
Having been in the recruitment industry for over 15 years across Europe and NZ I have had the pleasure of working closely with some great people, both as clients and as contractors and/or candidates. I have recruited for everything from temporary Warehouse staff to Contract GM’s [...]
Tuesday, 15 June, 2010 | Tagged in Running Your Own Business | Written by Kristen Barrett
Self-employed parents are eligible for 14 weeks paid parental leave under the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987
You are a self-employed person under the Act if you are:
a) Providing goods or services for hire or reward under a contract for services, or
b) Carrying on a business (including a profession, trade, manufacturing operation or an [...]
Thursday, 4 March, 2010 | Tagged in Running Your Own Business | Written by Kristen Barrett
PI/PL – As a contractor you are often responsible for providing your own Professional Indemnity/Public Liability. It can be time consuming, confusing and cost you a small fortune for even the shortest of contracts.
CXC Global has just announced they can now provide PI/PL to ANY contractor regardless of whom their employer or agency is. They [...]
Thursday, 28 January, 2010 | Tagged in Contractors, Running Your Own Business | Written by Kristen Barrett
The IRD states that if you are a contractor, and contract to one party for more than 80% of the time in any 12 month period then you may be deemed an ‘employee’ and required to pay tax at the personal tax rate instead of the company tax rate. By working through a Contractor Management [...]
Monday, 7 December, 2009 | Tagged in Running Your Own Business | Written by Kristen Barrett
The newly launched Telecom Business Hub is recommending NZ businesses to use Crackerjacks for their professional contract recruitment needs. This newly launched site is designed to profile innovative tools that will add value to New Zealand businesses.
Have a look at this site to see the unique solutions that will help your business grow…Click here to [...]
