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Ring-in worker has rights too: Manage the replacement carefully when staff on extended leave
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Ring-in worker has rights too: Manage the replacement carefully when staff on extended leave
Wednesday 9 August 2023, 01:52 PM

A casual employee is best managed under an agreement specific to their period of employment [Image: Sebastian Hermann on Unsplash]
We need some advice to cover a period of extended leave. My question is should it be casual or fixed term? We do not know whether the employee who is on leave will return, so we need to factor that in too
– Unsure, South Island
It is important to get the employment relationship correct, and there are different criteria for casual and fixed-term arrangements.
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