New Employment Type: Independent Contractor

Employment type Independent Contractors has been added to our existing Employment Types for NZ and soon for AU and UK clients. This includes Trade name, Australian Business Number (ABN), and Goods & Services Tax (GST) registration status, ensuring accurate documentation and compliance with regulatory requirements are being captured.

This option is available in Employee Importer, Manually Add Employee, and Onboarding and Rehire options. For the Independent Contractor to flow to the pay engine, this must be turned on in the pay engine to accept this new employment type. It is turned on by default for all platforms created post 2020. If not available, please reach out to support for assistance.

For existing employees, the employment type can be accessed on the Finance and Payroll tab under Employment type.

When selected, the Kiwisaver settings are auto populated and locked as not eligible for KiwiSaver, with Ineligibility Reason "Working as an independent contractor".

The tax code will auto populate and lock to Tax Code WT.

And new required fields will appear requesting the *Tax Rate, *Trade name, and NZBN if applicable.

Filtering positions on location level is also possible by creating Independent Contractor locations, and setting the Employment Type to Independent Contractor.