NZ Payroll - Allow employee date of birth to be optional
Please remove the requirement to have a date of birth for an employee.
We have been asking for this to be removed for years, Xero recently told us it was an IRD requirement. We contacted our account manager at Inland Revenue and they said it is not an IRD requirement and that they have been in contact with Xero Payroll to make the field non-compulsory.
The workaround that Xero gives of adding a made up date does not work and causes issues where IRD send letters that the date of birth does not match that client.
It is not a legal requirement for an employee to give an employer their date of birth so currently we cannot use Xero Payroll for those clients and if someone employs someone that wont give a date of birth we need to move payroll programmes which is not ideal.
Raelene Myers
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Roof Restorer
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Another strong vote to add this please.
This is a real legality issue for NZ users.
It is ILLEGAL to require an employee to provide date of birth because of discrimination laws, and for the same reasons as the OP, this needs to be able to be optional.
We are in the process of moving from MYOB and cannot set up employees in Xero Payroll without now asking them for birthdates, which is not only a spanner in the works, but they don't legally have to provide.