WR3.5 Requirements for offers of employment (01/04/2017)

Offers of employment must be:

1. for employment in New Zealand; and
2. for a period of at least 24 months; and
3. for full-time employment, (that is, it amounts to, on average, at least 30 hours per week); and
4. current at the time of assessing the application and at the time of grant of the visa; and
5. genuine; and
6. accompanied by evidence of full or provisional registration, or eligibility for such registration, if full or provisional registration is required by law to take up the offer; and
7. compliant with all relevant employment law in force in New Zealand; and
8. made by an employer who has a history of compliance with employment and immigration law and who is not on a list of non-compliant employers maintained by the Labour Inspectorate (see W2.10.15 and Appendix 10).

Note: Compliance with relevant New Zealand employment law includes but is not limited to:
~ a written employment agreement that contains the necessary statutory specified terms and conditions
~ meeting holiday and special leave requirements and other minimum statutory criteria
~ meeting health and safety obligations.

Effective 01/04/2017