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View our Employment Relations Specialist Gerrad Brimble's presentation on the benefit to businesses and the key requirements to consider when using the 90 ...

Read about Bills in Parliament, Getting the Language Right and Pay Controls...

Read how the The Vulnerable Children Act 2014 has now been passed. 

Read about the Employment Standards Bill the Government is expected to introduce to Parliament later this year...

Grow Hr is now in Napier! This is an exciting development for our team at Grow HR and we look forward to the closer contact with our clients around the Nap...

Read the Hawke's Bay Today article about Grow HR - HR firm grows business by tailoring solutions...

On 6th March, 2015 new provisions for rest and meal breaks were introduced into legislation. These provisions are intended to provide greater flexibility t...

There are four public holidays over this Christmas/New Year period – Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and the second of January.  These are fallin...

There are four public holidays over the Christmas/New Year period – Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and the second of January. Payment for public...

A matter of interest where the Employment Court overturned an Employment Relations Authority determination was De Bruin v Canterbury District Health Board....

Finding out as much as relevant and possible about your preferred candidates before employing them is our recommended approach to recruitment. The 90 day s...

We are delighted that we have recently been approved as a Partner Advisor for the newly launched survey tool Askyourteam.com. This new tool which has been ...

With Mandy office fairly bound due to an injury (non-work by the way!) for the last few weeks it seems timely to write about the support available to help ...

In a recent ERA matter a construction labourer was dismissed by his employer after he failed a random drug test. He sought interim reinstatement. In the de...

This is something we HR professionals talk a lot about. To the point where sometimes you can see an employer’s eyes begin to glaze over when they hear the ...

The Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee has released its recommendations on the proposed Employment Relations Amendment Bill. The Bill is p...

Recently the Employment Court has provided some helpful clarification as to what constitutes casual employment. In the case of Baker v St John Central Regi...

There are many different ways to engage an employee. They could be employed under casual, permanent or fixed term employment agreements and they may have s...

Soanes and Brown v Cardrona Adventure Park Limited, highlights why it is always important to be very clear about terms and conditions from the beginning of...

There seems to have been an extraordinary amount of activity in the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) and Employment Court of late.  A quick snapshot of...