Staff Onboarding

Once the decision has been made to hire someone through the hiring process, they will need to be on-boarded into the cooperative. Here's a checklist to help you go through that process.

Gather the Required Employee Information

  1. Confirmation of your right to work in New Zealand by providing a scan/copy of work or residence visas.
  2. IRD number
  3. IRD Tax code - Working out tax code
  4. Full name (including middle name)
  5. Address and telephone number, cellphone
  6. Kiwisaver - rate other than standard 3%?
  7. Date of birth
  8. Country of citizenship
  9. City and country of birth
  10. Previous address, if current is less than 5 years

Confirm Work and Remuneration Details

  • Hours/days of work
  • Pay (amount and payroll process)
  • Annual leave and sick leave
  • Loomio Points
  • Ensure employment contract has been signed

Loomio Cooperative Orientation

  • History of the organisation
  • Cooperative structure
  • Pillars of culture
  • Stewardship system
  • Coordination system
  • Decision making & inclusion in Loomio
  • Retreats and Away Days
  • Relationship to Enspiral
  • Employment policy & process development
  • Communications culture (online and offline)
  • Conflict resolution process
  • Intro to agile sprint process
  • Annual and Quarterly plan

Tools

Introduction, access, and logins

General tools:

  • Loomio
  • Email
  • Calendar
  • Drive
  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Github

Plus and role or team-specific tools

Person and Role Specific Orientation

  • Introduction to steward and schedule first meeting
  • Plan for welcome and introduction to team members
  • Introduction to working group or sub-team processes
  • Who will they work alongside while they get up to speed? Who should they go to with daily questions?
  • Plan for their first set of tasks or projects