Casual Employment Agreement

CASUAL EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

This Agreement is made between ✓Employer name, the "Employer", and ✓Employee name, the "Employee", engaged as a casual employee from Start date.

1. NATURE OF THE ENGAGEMENT 1.1. Nature of work: Nature of the work 1.2. How shifts are offered ("as and when required") 1.3. "Casual employee" is not a defined term under the Employment Relations Act 2000. Each shift or period of work offered and accepted is a separate engagement; there is no obligation on the Employer to offer work, and no obligation on the Employee to accept any shift offered.

2. PAY 2.1. Hourly rate: ✓Hourly rate.

3. HOLIDAY PAY 3.1. Method: Holiday pay method 3.2. Where paid as pay-as-you-go, holiday pay of Pay-as-you-go holiday pay (%)% is added to and identified separately on each payment, in lieu of accrued annual holidays, consistent with section 28 of the Holidays Act 2003 — this is only lawful where the work is genuinely intermittent or irregular. If the Employee's pattern of shifts becomes regular, the Employee is instead entitled to accrued annual holidays, and continuing to pay 8% pay-as-you-go would itself be unlawful. 3.3. ⚠️ The proposed Employment Leave Bill would replace the 8% pay-as-you-go rate with a 12.5% leave compensation rate — check the rate in force on the date of payment.

4. SICK LEAVE 4.1. Sick leave note 4.2. A casual employee working on a regular and systematic basis may become entitled to paid sick leave after six months of that employment, under the Holidays Act 2003.

5. RESOLVING PROBLEMS 5.1. Problem resolution clause (plain language) 5.2. As required by section 65 of the Employment Relations Act 2000, this plain-language clause explains how to resolve employment relationship problems, including the 90-day window to raise a personal grievance.

6. ENDING THE ENGAGEMENT 6.1. Either party may end the casual arrangement at any time by not offering, or not accepting, further shifts.

⚠️ A regular, predictable pattern of shifts over time can turn what is labelled "casual" into a de facto permanent part-time role regardless of this Agreement's wording — review the actual working pattern periodically.

SIGNATURES Employer ______________ / on behalf of ✓Employer name / Employee ______________ / ✓Employee name /

— — — ⚠️ This is a boilerplate template, not legal advice. New Zealand employment, privacy, consumer, food-safety, and work health & safety law combines the Employment Relations Act 2000, the Holidays Act 2003 (under active reform via the proposed Employment Leave Bill), the Privacy Act 2020, the Consumer Guarantees Act 1986, the Fair Trading Act 1986, the Food Act 2014, and the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 — several of which are mid-reform as of mid-2026 and change on fixed dates that this template flags but does not resolve for you. Have it reviewed and adapted by a lawyer or Employment New Zealand before use, check current guidance and free official templates at employment.govt.nz (including the Employment Agreement Builder at eab.business.govt.nz), and confirm the minimum wage and any other statutory rate in force on the date of use (rates change every 1 April).