Complying with immigration and employment law
Understand the laws protect that rights of migrants and how to comply with them as an employer.
Your responsibilities and obligations
When you hire migrants, you must work within New Zealand’s immigration and labour laws. They govern migrants’ immigration status as well as job and working conditions. As an employer, you have responsibilities under those laws that you must meet.
Attempts to recruit New Zealanders
Before you recruit offshore, you may be required to first offer the role to a New Zealand citizen or resident who can do the job or be readily trained to do it.
Entertainment industry bodies
If you offer a job in the New Zealand entertainment industry to an overseas worker, we may consult with a New Zealand entertainment industry body to check they support that person's work visa application.