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  • Click to View A,B,C

    A

    • Age A-Z
    • Appearance

    B

    • Babies and childcare
    • Behaviour-based questions
    • Benefits

    C

    • Credit checks
    • Criminal records
  • Click to View D,E,F

    D

    • Disability
    • Discrimination
    • Domestic employment
    • Dress code
    • Drug testing

    E

    • Entitlement to work in New Zealand
    • Ethnicity or national origins
    • Equality

    F

    • Family status
    • Flexibility
  • Click to View G,H,I

    G

    • Good employer

    H

    • Health
    • HIV
    • Honesty

    I

    • Indirect discrimination
    • Interview
  • Click to View J,K,L

    J

    • Job advertisements

    K

    • Kids
    • Knowledge

    L

    • Liability
  • Click to View M,N,O

    M

    • Marital status
    • Mental illness
    • Migrants

    N

    • Non-discrimination

    O

    • Overweight/obesity
  • Click to View P,Q,R

    P

    • Paid parental leave
    • Partner, spouse or relatives
    • Photographs
    • Police vetting
    • Political opinion
    • Pregnancy
    • Privacy

    Q

    • Qualifications
    • Questions

    R

    • Race
    • Reasonable accommodation
    • Recruitment consultants
    • Relatives
    • Religious belief
    • Risk of harm
  • Click to View S,T,U,V

    S

    • Sex
    • Sexual harassment
    • Sexual orientation
    • Speaking English

    T

    • Tattoos
    • Transgender/Trans people
    • Treaty of Waitangi

    U

    • Union membership
    • Unsuccessful applications

    V

    • Volunteers
  • Click to View W,X,Y,Z

    W

    • Women-only

    X

    • Xenophobia

    Y

    • Young people

Can I be asked if I intend to have kids?

An employer should avoid asking questions relating to pregnancy, proposed pregnancy, contraception or family planning, or parenthood. Questions of this type would be at risk of breaching the Act as they could be seen as indicating an intention not to employ applicants who have responsibility for children or alternatively an intention not to employ applicants who do not have responsibility for children.
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